Rich collection of relics of the Venetian Serenissima Republic era and of the Italian Navy.

The museum is currently housed in a building dating from the 15th Century that was once the Granary of the "Serenissima" (The Most Serene Republic of Venice), in Campo "San Biagio", near the Arsenal,. an area which to this day remains partly under the contrai of the ltalian Navy.

The conservation of the Arsenal' s records and àrtefacts is today entrusted to the Navàl History Museum, the foremost of its kind in ltaly.
Besides the main building, where the exhibition space is organized on five floors, offering 42 exhibition galleries, the museum also includes the Ship Pavilion, originally the oar workshop of the Arsenal.