MUSA, Museo del Sale di Cervia, occupies Magazzino Torre at 24 Via Nazario Sauro, on the canal harbour. The collections explore the work of the salt workers through tools, images and documents. The visit covers salt production and its relationship with the town, alongside the history of the building housing the museum.
Tools and the burchiella
Wooden tools show how manual harvesting worked. Exhibits include the only surviving original burchiella: a flat-bottomed boat used to transport salt from the pans to the warehouses along the canals. It could carry up to a hundred quintals.
The museum grew from collections begun in the second half of the 1980s by salt workers and enthusiasts. In 2004, the permanent exhibition became MUSA. Salina Camillone is its outdoor section, visited with a guide from the salt pan's Centro Visite.
Visiting in different seasons
The regular calendar distinguishes summer evenings, from 1 June to 15 September, from Saturday, Sunday and public holiday afternoons during the rest of the year. Full admission costs 2 euros and is free for under-14s and on the first Sunday of the month. For groups of at least fifteen, the museum also opens outside regular hours on request, for a fee.
The canalside walk can include the Il Tappeto Sospeso fountain and the other warehouses. The museum collections and harbour buildings help trace the route of salt from the production basins to the town.
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