About Museo Naval
The Museo Naval in Madrid is a maritime museum housed in the headquarters of the Spanish Navy. It is located in the Triángulo del Arte, near the Prado and Reina Sofía museums. The collection, which originated in 1792 from the holdings of the Armada Española, opened in 1931 in the Admiralty building, which was constructed between 1915 and 1928. Here you can marvel at nautical charts from the era of the Catholic Monarchs, wooden models, portraits of seafarers, and designs for early submarines and torpedoes. The best-known exhibit is a world map by Juan de la Cosa from 1500, the first to show the coast of the Americas.
Based on the article “Museo Naval de Madrid” from the German Wikipedia, summarized and rephrased by a language modelLicense CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Museum › History museums
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- Address
- Paseo del Prado, 3
28014 Madrid, Spain - District
- Retiro
- Phone
- +34915238789
- Website
- armada.defensa.gob.es
- museonavalmadrid@fn.mde.es
- Coordinates
- 40.41750° N · -3.69239° E
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A beautiful museum with a large interesting collection about Spanish naval history, from the efforts of kingdoms of Aragon and Castilia, the many successes and few failures (what's known in English as the defeat of the Spanish Armarda has a section) in the 15th-17th centuries, the drastic decline in the 19th century and its consequences in terms of losing the country's empire, the division of the navy into opposing sides in the 1930s Civil War, to today. It's almost all labelled in English as well as Spanish. A temporary exhibition traces today's Spanish flag from its origin as the navy's attempt to have one that contrasted well with other navy's flags, and the museum has the very large flag flown by the Spanish flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar (the loss is blamed on the French admiral for insisting on sailing out of Cadiz to fight it!)
Source: Wikivoyage, „Madrid/Retiro-Paseo del Arte“ · authors per page history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · as of 1/27/2017