  Recently some of the authors proposed a search for galactic axions with mass
about 0.2~$\mu$eV using a large volume resonant cavity, tens of cubic meters,
cooled down to 4~K and immersed in a magnetic field of about 0.6~T generated
inside the superconducting magnet of the KLOE experiment located at the
National Laboratory of Frascati of INFN. This experiment, called KLASH (KLoe
magnet for Axion SearcH), has a potential sensitivity on the axion-to-photon
coupling, $g_{a\gamma\gamma}$, of about $6\times10^{-17}$ $\mbox{GeV}^{-1}$,
reaching the region predicted by KSVZ\cite{KSVZ} and DFSZ\cite{DFSZ} models of
QCD axions. We report here the status of the project.
