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Reials Drassanes (Museu Marítim de Barcelona)

Download date: 10/04/2024

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The striking Royal Shipyards, testimony to the link between the sea and Barcelona, are now home to the Maritime Museum.

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Maritime witness

Barcelona’s history is closely tied to the sea, so it had to have a museum to explain all about that link. The site chosen was the old royal shipyards, the Reials Drassanes, which bear witness to the city’s seafaring past. Galleys and part of the fleet of the old Crown of Aragon were built there, warships were repaired and it was a store for equipment, tools and supplies. A whole history and lots of uses linked to the sea that it now bears witness to.

A historic building

The Drassanes were built backing onto the city’s second medieval walls, like a huge military fortification, and the yards still preserve the remains of the bastions in Plaça de Santa Madrona, as well as one of the entrance gates and part of the old walls.

The most curious thing about them is that for more than two centuries after they lost their original use, they were turned into a military foundry making cannons for the army, a barracks, an arsenal and an artillery store. Just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, the army handed them over to the city, which immediately turned them into the Maritime Museum. And since the 1970s, Barcelona’s Royal Shipyards have been a Historical Artistic Heritage Site .

Today the splendid halls devoid of columns, with their high ceilings and gigantic arches, once used to build warships, promote the city’s maritime culture in a museum through which pirates, Vikings, the remains of the Titanic and big scientific discoveries have all passed in exhibitions where the sea has always been the common thread. The Museu Marítim de Barcelona (MMB) is open to everyone, adults and children, linking the city even more closely to the sea It is a place to enjoy the maritime world, visual and interactive, and part of the Raval Cultural project, which aims to make the neighbourhood’s artistic and cultural heritage available to everyone.

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Location and contact

Location and contact

Reials Drassanes (Museu Marítim de Barcelona)

Address:
Avinguda de les Drassanes, 1
Districte:
Ciutat Vella
Neighborhood:
el Raval
City:
Barcelona
Getting there

Timetable and prices

Timetable

Dies Hores Preus

Cada dia excepte 24 desembre i 31 de desembre

Tancat 25 desembre, 26 desembre, 1 gener i 6 gener

 de 10.00 h a 20.00 h
Entrada general: 10 €


Reduïda:: 5 €

- Majors de 65 anys

- Estudiants (- 25 anys)amb carnet d' estudiant

-Persones amb situació d'atur (amb acreditació)

-Persones amb un grau de discapacitat igual o superior al 33% i un acompanyant

- Carnet de Biblioteques de Barcelona

- Socis de l'ONCE

- Carnet Jove

- Personal al servei dels ens constitutius del Consorci de les Drassanes

Reduïda: 8 €

- Grups de + 10 persones

- Families nombroses o monoparental amb acreditació

Gratuïta:

- Diumenges a partir de les 15 h

- Membres Amics Museu Marítim

- Membres de l'ICOM

- Membres de l'ICCM

- Membres Associació Museòlegs Catalunya

- Menors 17 anys

- 11 de febrer (Santa Eulàlia)

- 18 de maig (Dia Internacional dels Museus)

- 24 i 25 de setembre (La Mercè)
24 desembre i
31 desembre		 de 10.00 h a 15.00 h

Nit dels Museus 2023:

13 de Maig

 de 19.00 h a 01.00 h
Entrada Gratuïta

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