MuMa Museo del Mare Milazzo

The 'MuMa Museo del Mare Milazzo', located in the ancient Milazzo Castle, is a unique museum, a spiritual journey to rediscover the harmony between man and sea through science and art. It deals with environmental protection and education, with a message aimed at raising awareness, especially among young people, of the protection and preservation of the sea. MuMa was born from the moving and tragic story of a sperm whale, renamed "Siso", who in the summer of 2017 found death off the Aeolian Islands due to an illegal fishing net and the plastic it had ingested. After the extraordinary recovery of the bones and the reconstruction of the skeleton carried out by the biologist Carmelo Isgrò, the idea of creating the museum was born, which has at its centre the majestic skeleton of the Sperm Whale Siso suspended in the air by cables, together with the illegal net that killed it and the plastic that was found in its belly. The MuMa is not the classic Museum of the Sea but a place where Science meets Art in its broadest facets. Visitors will experience knowledge thanks to interactive didactic videos, virtual reality experiences, augmented reality and multimedia art installations that will lead them to become aware of the anthropic impacts on the environment for a necessary change in the man-sea relationship.