Maritime Museum Barcelona

Maritime Museum, Barcelona is one of the most interesting museums that you can ever come across. This museum has all the ingredients that make it one such museum to watch out for. The Martime Museum finds place in the Drassanes Reals, a former royal shipyards. The Gothic architecture of the building is simply magnificent.

This museum caters headphones and a Walkman and allows you to uncover the unknown all by yourself. This museum is bundled with excellent gamut of artifacts, you will also witness a variety of ships, dioramas, maps and the list goes on. An outstanding model of Magellan's Santa María de la Victoria is found here. The major pride and joy of the museum is none other than the colossal life-sized replica of Juan de Austria's Lepanto "galera".

And things just can’t get any more real than a brief 3D virtual reality show of the crew that the museum has in the offering. And did you know that you can also find a full-scale replica of the Santa Maria on which Columbus sailed in the year 1492. You will certainly be a witness to some of the best nautical extravaganza that you could have ever imagined.

Many believe, Maritime Museum, Barcelona has to be your ultimate destination. You will be overwhelmed having seen the past so close from here. The collections of the museum simply stands out, it tells so much about the past times of the earlier centuries. Tourists from all over the world come over to Maritime Museum, Barcelona each year. They discover things that they never knew about nautical history. Not just that they also come to learn so much about the city’s past like never before. It is indeed a must-see museum.

Maritime Museum, Barcelona truly presents the best of maritime history revealing facts, which you have never come across.