Museums & galleries · Ciutat Vella
Museu Maritim de Barcelona
The Museu Maritim occupies the Drassanes Reials, the medieval royal shipyards at the foot of the Rambla in Barcelona's Ciutat Vella. The stone halls were built to fit galleys under construction and now hold the city's maritime collection.
Why it matters
The building is the exhibit: a complete set of medieval covered slipways, the largest surviving anywhere, whose bay widths were set by the beam of a galley.
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Good for
- Rainy day — A very large covered hall at the harbour end of the Rambla, a few minutes from the waterfront.
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Sources & verification
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- Barcelona municipal facilities open data (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
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- coordinates.longitude
- Barcelona municipal facilities open data (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- officialWebsite
- Museu Maritim de Barcelona (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
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- operational.hoursText
- Museu Maritim de Barcelona - published opening information (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Quoted from the operator's published opening information on the date read.
Operational details last checked 2026-09-07. Facts of this kind are treated as current for 120 days.
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