Floating Nautical Heritage Case Studies and Experimental Proposal for Proximity Museums

Floating Nautical Heritage is part of the Italian Cultural Heritage. Within the mission of the PNRR, it is considered to be a strategic branch for the economic, social, and cultural recovery of our country. In this scenario, Design for Cultural Heritage promotes good practices to reconnect heritages, their users and stakeholders through digital technologies and by enhancing the tangible heritage and their intangible dimension. Thanks to this preface, the paper focuses on Nautical Heritage. It is characterized by a great variety of typologies of goods, both material and intangible, which are currently barely enjoyable. Nevertheless, it has great potential from the economic, social, and cultural points of view. By including the Floating Nautical Heritage in the context of the Design for Cultural Heritage, the authors show innovative strategies focused on the concept of museum of proximity. Two case studies are proposed as pilot experiments that are eventually transferable to others in Italy and abroad.