The Naval Museum Ottorino Zibetti;inaugurated in 1978;was born as a devout homage of Mrs Josephine Bietti to the memory of her husband;an expert of ship modelling;careful collector;lover of the sea and "maritime things ".The Museum consists of scale models of famous sailing ships;historic memorabilia;nautical instruments;compasses;binoculars;marine tools and fossils;rare shells;medals;and a library of the sea.
Among the "pieces" of particular importance there are:the torpedo's propeller of the MAS X15;with which;the morning of June 10;1918;the captain Luigi Rizzo sank the Austrian battleship "Santo Stefano";a strip of the "red tent" and a few fragments of the spacecraft of the General Umberto Nobile's airship "Italia";given away by the wireless operator of the Russian icebreaker "Krassin";the command of the corvette Bayonet which carried in exile;the 9th of September 1943;Vittorio Emanuele III under the false name of the Earl of Pollenzo;two flags signalling the destroyer "Luca Tarigo";which had a leading role during the last World War in an heroic and touching affair;given away by the captain Giovanni Martinelli;an ancient English sextant;a rare "gondola iron" which is now impossible to find;a steering wheel from the 16th century;a diving suit made of copper and bronze and dated 1890;a model of speedboat given away by Mr.Piero Guerra.