It is to be hoped to never see it (more) floating in the Mediterranean waters. He, the Toti submarine – or a clone, updated – who monitored the seabed to prevent the attacks of the enemies. If there is a sense in war ships, it is what a museum can give him. The showcase. The preferential lane for children. The explanation of what a submarine delivered to the Navy in 1968 served. To learn from history.
The S-506 submarine Enrico Toti was used by the military for 30 years: made by the Italcantieri (today Fincantieri) of Monfalcone, he stopped navigating in 1997 (when the Soviet danger ceased).
Since 2005 it has been kept at the National Museum Science and Technology and, for a few days, you can return to climbing you on board, accompanied. The guided tours had been suspended to allow a redevelopment intervention in the external areas of the museum.
Until Sunday 7 September the visits will be from Tuesday to Sunday from 10.30 to 13 while, starting from Tuesday 9 September, it can be appreciated only on weekends and holidays. The route was enriched with Braille explanatory panels, by a tactile table with the section of the boat rooms and Toti himself and by a QR code with an accompanying audio to facilitate the usability of blind and partially sighted people. The panels were built together with the Blind Institute and with National Sordi National Authority, a Milanese section, as part of the project a plan for sensory accessibility to the museum supported by the Cariplo Foundation.
This is an important year for the submarine: the first twenty years from the entrance to the museum will be celebrated on August 14. A journey through the Lombard countryside departing from Cremona on August 8, 9 pm, to arrive in the city, on the evening of 11 August. 93km routes on board a trolley more than 60 meters long with 30 axes and 250 pneumatic wheels. Green light from the east ring road, then above the two mobile bridges in via Rogoredo and Piazza Mistral, up to via Toffetti. Hence the last stretch. It was on the evening of August 13, the last 7 km were missing. So at 6.30 on August 14, Toti crossed the gates and was placed with the bow inward and the propeller addressed to via Olona outside because inside the museum there would not have been.
In the following days, the boat was housed on the two steel plates, positioned at the ground height, which still support its 340 tons. More than 150,000 people welcomed him among the applause.