IZOLANA - HOUSE OF THE SEA

Small museum dedicated to fishing and the relationship between the town of Izola and the sea. The permanent exhibition has been thoroughly revised recently. We learn a lot of things and the proposed route is very coherent. We first enter a first room that shares with us scenes of daily life after World War II in Izola where the sea is already omnipresent. The box on the necessary use of Slovenian wood in the construction of Yugoslav ships is very well done. Upstairs, one room is devoted to the work and legacy of the Italian geographer Pietro Coppo, who was responsible for the first map of the Istrian peninsula in the early sixteenth century, as well as for a puzzling attempt to map the world as a whole. The other rooms focus on the development of a local Istrian identity: with the role of the fish cannery and the Delamaris company in the regional economy, but also with the introduction of the famous Parenzana railway circuit that opened a major trade route in Central Europe in the 19th century. Well-designed educational workshops line the entire route: making knots, simulating a fishing boat in which you can sit... This museum is worth a visit as it is very well documented and offers a very good starting point for discovering the maritime town of Izola, less famous than its neighbors.