"This exhibition" - adds the director of the National Museum of Archeology of the Sea Federico Bonfanti - "allows many of the archaeological materials exhibited in the museum's permanent exhibition to enter into dialogue with the selected contemporary works, as they take us through different paths and perspectives to reflect on the same theme, i. E. the very high price that a war has always imposed on the contenders in opposition to each other, in terms of loss of social relationships, ties, one's own goods and, ultimately, of the very existence. I mention only by way of example the crew of the brig Mercurio involved during the battle of Grado in 1812,among whose members there were also 12-13 year old boys embarked as cabin boys who tragically perished due to the sinking of the sailing ship".