Museo Storico Navale di Venezia

We visited the museum and also took the tour of the Enrico Dandolo submarine too. The main museum building has four floors to explore and the museum has a ship hall too which is about a 3 minute walk (this is where the submarine tour goes from). The submarine tour lasted approximately an hour. It's on the base itself, so you have to email over/give on the day extra details like DOB and place of birth. There are also no photos allowed until you get by the submarine. You get given a hard hat and an audio tour and start by walking through the naval arsenal for a few stops before reaching the submarine itself. It's all by audio tour and the English one was really good and gave a good overview of its history and some quirks about the submarine! The museum itself is very extensive with lots of things to see. Some artefacts do have translations into English too. I think my favourite sections were the ship models and uniforms which were brilliant. I liked the fact they included a few ocean liners too which was interesting. Definitely don't miss the ship hall too, there are some really interesting boats there and I think you really feel the history of the site, plus just outside they have the very ornate gate to the arsenal too! Side Note Just a note if you're planning on coming on the waterbus line 4.1. The stop at Piazzola Roma actually has two entrances- a normal one for locals, normal tickets/ contactless and a Priority Lane for tourists with a special pass. The Priority Lane customers (even if they've just rocked up and the normal lane customers have been waiting for 40minutes plus) will always get on first here and fill the boat up. From what we saw, they won't let anyone from the normal lane onto the waterbus due to the numbers in the other line so DO NOT use this stop unless you can use the Priority Lane or take another line to get to the museum.

This museum is superb. There is so much to see, including models, uniforms, ships of all different sorts and eras, artwork, a shell collection and more. It covers four floors in the main building and a pavilion housing some fabulous ships of historical significance. We had an audio guide (no extra cost) and the staff were very helpful, speaking to us in English too! The guide is very detailed indeed! We spent several hours in the museum and could have stayed longer. There is a submarine which costs extra to visit, hut we didn't have time. There's a nice gift shop too.

Paid at the door, no queue. The main museum is on 4 floors plus if you follow the adjacent canal north to the bridge there is a separate entrance to a few more halls, and this is where you go if you have opted for the submarine visit. There are artifacts plus many ship models and even a sea shell collection on the top floor. At the separate entrance there are some boats including a WWII torpedo boat. Inexplicably, all the stairs to give you a better view to the boats here were roped off for no apparent reason - disappointing. The submarins submarine, from the cold War era, was interesting. You have a guide because this element is on an active naval base. You can't take pictures here (but ok on the submarine).

Great museum located in two different buildings, make sure to visit both of them. Extremely large collection of ship models, guns, swords, uniforms and more in the building close to the seafront. Second building contains real size ships from Venice. The whole family enjoyed every piece of the museum.

Very interesting museum, it needs a good renovation and to improve the vocal guide that sometimes is very annoying. Also rooms are really cold. What is worth visiting is the Arsenal building with the old vessels.

Imagine a naval museum in Venice that completely ignores the cutting edge industrial technology of the Arsenale at the height of the Venetian Republic’s dominance. That’s exactly what the Naval Museum in Venice does. It is a warehouse of weapons, maps, instruments, model ships, uniforms and ships. Signage around the displays is in small print and minimally descriptive. The free audio-guide is in excellent English but it will take you four hours to hear it all. Although the pieces gathered are authentic there’s a randomness to the collection. It feels as though the managers of the 1919 warehouse made as good a display as they could without any creativity or curatorial know-how. It appears not to have been upgraded since then. There is a single drawing of the Arsenale in the late 1700s showing the layout that allowed La Serenissima to build a boat a day via the earliest ever system of industrial conveyer system technology. Imagine not creating a significant display focused on this historical wonder.

Wow! That was so good! There was so much to see, much to hear! I never knew venice was such a navel superpower! This taught me a lot! I could not finish it because it was so big! Among the cool battleships we had a once in a lifetime chance of going in a real submarine! That was so cool

Telling the naval history of Venice through models and artefacts, such as the name plates from the battleships Vittorio Veneto and Caio Duilo, or war trophies from the battle of Lepanto and from the First World War. I especially enjoyed seeing items from Caligula’s Nemi ships.

An interesting museum with lots packed into a relatively small space. Plenty of models, cannons, and information on engineering. Well worth a visit.

This was a must see for me when I came to Venice. Why.......it's a naval Museum and it has models. Warning up front, this place is expansive and 5 ish floors. There is plenty to see so block off some time for this. I'm not going to spill all the beans, so just go if you are ever in the neighborhood.

Generally a good museum. Well planned, easy to move about, good signage, varied exhibits. If you are into boats, military history, nautical engineering or Venetian history you will enjoy this. My only complaint is that there is not enough about Venice. People come to Venice to learn about Venice not Italy. There are only a few boats from Venice.

This is a great place to take kids. Engineers and sailors will enjoy the models. Gun fanatics will enjoy all the early examples of weaponry and cannon.

If you are expecting caliber similar to Annapolis, or USS Missouri or Hornet or Intrepid, look elsewhere. It is far less impressive then the Musée de l'Armée in Paris or even the miltary museum in Saigon. 5 euros will get you 3 rooms of dilapidated ships and 2/3 of the exhibits only available in Italian. It will take less than 10 minute visit every exhibit and read the displays. Even if it was free, I would hesitate to take the detour. It is the least most comprehensive museum I have ever visited.

So it turns out that the actual Museo Storico Navale is closed for renovations, but they didn't mention that on their website or in the annex up the street to which a sign directs you - and which had a sign on the door saying Museo Storico. This annex is one floor and has a small number of not very old boats. The real Museo has several floors and has old ships and models of how they were built. So basically they are ripping off tourists during their renovations. Also, few of the signs in the annex are in any language other than Italian. There are some sheets with information in other languages, but it is really hard to match the sheets with the exhibits. Overall, we walked away with a feeling that someone has contempt for tourists - without whom Venice would no longer exist.

If you're interested in boats and stuff then you'll probably like this museum. I found it incredibly boring and a complete waste of time.