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Naval Museum of Cartagena

Cartagena, Campo de Cartagena, Murcia

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Naval Museum of Cartagena

Monument · Cartagena, Campo de Cartagena, Murcia

A museum devoted to Cartagena's long naval and military tradition, the historic base of the Spanish Navy in the Mediterranean, with pieces, models and documentation on its arsenal and its strategic role. A branch of the Naval Museum of Madrid, it was inaugurated on 8 July 1986 and since 2012 has occupied the former Seamen's Training Barracks, a mid-18th-century building by the military engineer Mateo Vodopich, facing the Dársena de Botes, which previously served as a penitentiary centre and prison. Among its pieces are the model of the training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano, remains of the ships Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Santa Margarita, and a room devoted to the Marine Infantry with paintings, photographs, weapons and uniforms of its bands.

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