MUSA-Museo del Sale di Cervia

The MUSA – Museo del Sale di Cervia- or the Cervia Salt Museum, is obviously located in the salt warehouses, an impressive example of industrial archaeology and historic places where the precious “white gold” of Cervia was stored. The MUSA narrates the history of this town and its salt works with important references to the development of the city that, from a site typically dedicated to the production of salt, evolved into a centre of tourism of international importance that is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year.

At the end of the 1980s, some salters who intended to maintain the memory of the salt works alive began collecting the memorabilia related to the salt civilisation, tools of the trade, photographs, documents, and anything that might serve to recount the history and the development of the salt community.  Today the MUSA narrates an exciting journey through the history of this town, its origins, the difficult relations of the city with waters, the hard work, the dominations, the traditions, legends and realities linked to the sites and to the people, and its evolution into a tourist attraction.  A visit to the museum piques curiosity and facilitates a careful and knowledgeable reading of the local landscape.

The MUSA also offers an open-air area, the Camillone salt pan, the only original salt mine that is still worked with the historic system of multiple manual collection, with wooden tools used until 1959, the year during which the Cervia salt pan underwent the industrialisation process, an important transformation in the field of production and structure that resulted in its current appearance.

Visitors to the museum and the salt works are welcomed by the volunteers of the Gruppo Culturale Civiltà Salinara, (Salt Works Civilisation Cultural Group), the same who keep the Camillone salt pan open and active, passing down the trade to future generations and the sole protagonists of stories and experiences.

The MUSA is acknowledged as a Museum of Quality by the Region of Emilia Romagna, is part of the Romagnolo museum network, and the antenna of the Eco-museum of Salt and the Sea.
Didactic offerings, events, and activities are presented on the website.