Museu Marítim
The Museu Marítim de Barcelona occupies the Drassanes Reials de Barcelona, the royal arsenal built for shipbuilding over centuries of the city’s maritime life. The first written mention of these arsenals dates to 1243, in a document that sets the boundaries of Barcelona’s shipyard. You’re inside a Gothic structure whose construction unfolded in stages: an early phase between 1283 and 1328, and a second between 1328 and 1390 under the Crown of Aragon’s influence, including rule by Peter III of Aragon when construction began. This museum traces navigation history from the “early days” through the 15th-century period of the Spanish Navy under the Catholic Monarchs, and continues to the present. Its galleries hold navigation instruments, weapons, portolans, and paintings. A major chapter followed excavations in 2012, when workers uncovered a late 16th-century rebuilding that formed the museum’s current structure—and even a Roman graveyard. …
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