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Reials Drassanes (Museu Marítim de Barcelona)

Download date: 06/11/2026

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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

Every day

Special opening hours on 24 and 31 December

Closed: 25 and 26 December, and 1 and 6 January

 From 10.00 am to 8.00 pm
General admission: €10


Reduced:: €5

- Over 65s

- Students (under 25) with a student card

- Unemployed people (with accreditation)

- People with a recognised disability of 33% or more and one accompanying person

- Carnet de Biblioteques de Barcelona

- Members of ONCE

- Carnet Jove

- Staff of the institutions that make up the Drassanes Consortium


Reduced: €8

- Groups of more than 10 people

- Holders of a large or single-parent family card (with accreditation)


Free:

- Sundays from 3 pm onwards

- Members of Amics Museu Marítim

- Members of ICOM

- Members of ICCM

- Members of the Associació de Museòlegs de Catalunya

- Under 17s

- 12 February (Santa Eulàlia)

- 18 May (International Museum Day)

- 24 September (La Mercè)


Combined ticket Museu Marítim + Les Golondrinas

- General: €18

- Reduced: from 13 to €5
24 December and
31 December		 From 10.00 am to 3.00 pm

The Night of the Museums 2025:

17 May

 From 7.00 pm to 1.00 am
Free admission

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