Museo Istituto Tecnico Nautico Leon Pancaldo, Savona

Opened in May 2009, on the top floor of the historic headquarters of the Nautical Institute “Leon Pancaldo” with the purpose of collecting, restoring, and preserving the very rich heritage of instruments, machinery, historical laboratory equipment, ancient volumes, and memories of an Institute which, founded in 1856, throughout its long history has trained thousands of students and has brought the name of Savona to the world.

The exhibition covers an area of 500 sqm and includes various sections: the gallery of paintings of Graduates throughout the long history of the Institute, historical photos of the port of Savona from the early 1900s, models of vintage ships, historical laboratory equipment for physics and electrical engineering, onboard instruments and equipment, perfectly working steam engine models, marine engine models, technical drawings made by students in the 1950-60s, classroom dedicated to port operators, study-library that houses ancient books, meteorological station with 19th-century instruments, perfectly functional, which daily transmits data to be sent to ARPAL and the Ministry of Agriculture, the large historical planetarium, one of the few operational in Italy.