Museum
Museo per la Memoria di Ustica
Reassembled airliner wreckage displayed inside a former tram depot, ringed by black mirrors and whispering speakers.
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The Museo per la Memoria di Ustica in Bologna is built around a single reassembled object: the wreckage of an Itavia DC-9 that broke apart over the Tyrrhenian Sea on the night of June 27, 1980, killing all eighty-one people aboard. The guide traces how the fuselage sank for decades, how investigators hauled roughly two thousand five hundred fragments off the seabed, and how workers hollowed out the floor of a former tram depot to give the rebuilt plane room to rest. Take a moment at ground level before you approach the wreckage itself.
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