Navy Museum
The Navy Museum—Museu de Marinha—puts Portugal’s seafaring story on the same site as one of the country’s great symbols of maritime ambition: it occupies part of the neo-Manueline western wing of the Jerónimos Monastery, alongside the National Museum of Archaeology, with a modern annex to the north. The museum’s collection begins with King Luís I (1838–1889). In 1863, he started gathering items tied to preserving Portugal’s maritime history, building a collection that grew over the following decades. That culminated in the inauguration of the Maritime Museum in 1963 in its present location. Because the Portuguese Navy administers the museum, the exhibits range from 15th-century ship models to navigational instruments and maps, and even royal barges. One standout is the Fairey III “Santa Cruz”, which crossed the Atlantic in 1923, alongside the Portuguese Navy’s first aircraft, an FBA Type B flying boat.
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