- The Museum of Ancient Ships of Pisa is a Museum that holds a collection of Roman ships found in Pisa, that date across 1,000 years of the Roman Period.
Location
- The Museum is located at Lungarno Raniero Simonelli, 16, 56126, Pisa.
History of the Collection
- The museum holds a unique collection of cargo ships and riverboats that were perfectly preserved with their cargoes when they sank in the mud during severe floods.
- Pisa is a city on the river Arno, which empties into the Mediterranean at nearby Livorno, in the Tuscany Region of northern Italy.
- It was the Roman inland port known as Portus Pisanus, then located 2.5 miles (4km) from the sea, and the only port between Genoa and Ostia.
- In 1998, whilst excavating a new railway station, over 30 Roman shipwrecks were found in a remarkable state of preservation.
- The ships date from over 1,000 years of the Roman Period between the 3rd century BCE to the 7th century CE.
- The ships are now preserved in this museum, which opened in 2019.
Museum of Ancient Ships of Pisa