Who we are

The Galata Sea Museum of Genoa promotes the knowledge and the valorization of the marine culture, the genoese historical identity and the relationships with other cultures. Through finds, faithful reconstructions and a photographic archive covering almost the entire twentieth century, the Museum takes on the role of cultural pole in the city panorama, offering residents and tourists the opportunity to get in touch with the most fascinating aspects of the maritime environment.

The Mu.MA, strategic structure of the Municipality of Genoa, brings together 4 museums:
the Galata Sea Museum, the Monumental Complex of the Lantern, the National Museum of Italian Emigration, housed at the Commenda di Pré and Villa Centurione Doria home to the historic Naval Museum of Pegli – thus constituting a cultural hub linked to the themes of the sea and migration, travel, dialogue between peoples and cultures.
Founded in 2005, the Mu.MA is now the cultural soul of a “sea system” to be enhanced through collaboration with similar institutional, economic, tourist and cultural national and international.

Pierangelo Campodonico has been director and scientific curator of Galata since its opening in 2004.
Curator of the Naval Museum of Pegli since 1988, in April 1993, coordinates the reopening to the public in 1992, while in 1996, on behalf of the then Mayor Adriano Sansa, inaugurates the Pavilion of the Sea and Navigation at the Warehouses of Cotton. In 1998, he was appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Scientific Directorate of the Italian Pavilion at the Lisbon Expo dedicated to the relationship between man and the sea. Between 1998 and 2000, the new Mayor of Genoa, Giuseppe Pericu, appointed him as Coordinator of the Project Office of the Museum of the Sea and Navigation, which was inaugurated on 31 July 2004, today the largest maritime museum in the Mediterranean.
He designed and directed the musealization of the S-518 Nazario Sauro submarine of the Italian Navy and coordinated its activities until the opening to the public, which took place on 28 May 2010. Former foreign member (2010-2012) of the Conseil de Administration of the Museé de la Marine, a maritime museum system in France based in Paris, in 2017 he was co-opted into the executive committee of the International Congress of Maritime Museum, the organization that gathers the most important marine museums of the world. He coordinated the realization of the scientific path of the MEI – National Museum of Italian Emigration in the headquarters of the Commenda di San Giovanni di Prè, open to the public on 11 May 2022.

muma@muma.genova.it – Tel. 010 5576745

The Association aims to preserve, enhance and promote the heritage preserved in the museums of Mu.MA.
The associationist model is inspired by the non-profit Cultural Foundations of Anglo-Saxon tradition, a private structure that supports public heritage.