Sergej Mašera Maritime Museum — Attraction in Upravna enota Piran / Unità amministrativa Pirano

Well worth visiting Piran's small but charming maritime museum with its grand theme of charting both local and Slovenia's national maritime history. There are historical artifacts in abundance (uniforms, instruments, ship models, maps, prints, paintings, etc) occupying the whole of two floors. The proud history and exploits of the Austro-Hungarian and subsequent Yugoslavian navies are my personal favorites but there is much else (the exhibits of the local fishing and shipbuilding industries for example) to excite the interest of anyone remotely interested in seafaring. You might also be fortunate enough to run in to the museum's art historian who is happy to chat and share her considerable...

Marine architectures and visual pictures of history came to me as pure delicate work of art, constructing an imaginary bridge between the past and present moment. At the moment of visit, I was briefly able to palpably feel and immerse into the life of seaman - vividly triggering me to rethink about the quote “Call me Ishmael”. When I visited, the price for adult...

Great museum, highly informative. I liked very much the representation of the amforas through the glass floor. The decoration of the rooms presenting the Venetian and Habsburg era is fascinating. The rooms dedicated to the wars make you think about the pointlessness of fights. The staff is kind and...