Maritime Museum

Maritime Museum in Macau is a reminder of the linkage between Macanese Culture and history and the sea. The Macau Maritime Museum is located at the very place where the first Portuguese voyage arrived in the 16th century. This square of the Barra Pagoda once known as "A MA GAO" gave Macau its name.

Building of the Maritime Museum in Macau is modeled on a maritime ship anchored in the Inner Harbor. A pivotal among the museums in Macau to visit on your travel to Macau, it provides an elaborate presentation of the way of life of the fishermen in Macau and South China. The ground floor of the Macau Maritime Museum houses numerous types of ships, fishing instruments and images related to ways of fishing, unusual varieties of fish and shellfishes living in Macanese waters. Even a facsimile of the dwelling of a fisherman is portrayed, where the entire family can be seen allotting the tasks preceding the fishing activities.

Maritime Museum in Macau houses the "Little A-Ma Theatre". It gladly tells the fairy tale of this Goddess of Sea in Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese and English. The first floor is solely dedicated to the Grand Discovery Trips, specially underlining the Maritime History of China and Portugal. The trips made by Admiral Cheng Ho around the world are interactively exposed. The itineraries of the Portuguese Discoveries dating back to 15th and 16th centuries are also obtainable, together with illustration of the products of commerce of that period like tea, spices, porcelain, silk etc.

The second floor of the Maritime Museum in Macau is devoted to maritime Technology and Transport. Several traditional tools are shown side by side the models of the latest ships. The visitor will come across a gallery of aquariums showing a riverbed, harbor, a coral reef and the remains of a ship gone under long ago.

On the ground floor of the Macau Maritime Museum is a shop selling special souvenirs and printed publications about the city of Macau, maps, etc. Plan your Macau tour and take pleasure in the museums in the isles of Macau, China, Asia. Asiarooms offers online information on Macau travel. For more information, explore relevant links on Macau travel on Asiarooms.

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