Arzanà was founded in 1992, and to the first seven founding members, many others have been added over time, together with numerous collaborators and sympathizers, all united by the need to bring together and create a sort of common home for all the experts local and international studies of ethnography and naval history of the upper Adriatic, in particular of Venetian origin.

In all these years of activity, the Arzanà has acquired around fifty autochthonous boats of the Venice lagoon. They are all wooden boats, some sailing and/or rowing, many of which have now become unique pieces. In addition, tools, instruments and other finds of historical ethnographic interest have also been recovered from squeri, or craft shops that have ceased activity, the result of discoveries or donations made by private citizens.
All of this is currently preserved in the small museum in Calle delle Pignatte in Cannaregio. This museum site is an ancient shipyard – in VenIce – active since the fifteenth century and efficient until 1920, where one of the most important dynasties of gondola builders originally from the Val di Zoldo operated: the CASALs.

As in  the arzanà  of the Venetians the tenacious pitch boils in winter to repalm their unhealthy wood, because they can't sail - in that place those who build new wood and those who strip the coasts of what they traveled the most; who replies from proda and who from stern; others make oars and others turn seamstresses; who will be a third-party and an artimon will re-enter -: (…)

(Dante Alighieri, Inferno, XXI canto)

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