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Nautical Municipal Museum of el Masnou
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The Museum of History and Archaelogy of el Masnou was born in 1962 thanks to the citizenship help. It was named Nautical Municipal Museum of el Masnou in 1990 because the naval items there were more and more important.
The Museum is supplied with the Municipal School of Naval Modelling, the Archives and a publication about local history, edited under the title La Roca de Xeix.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Contact address and telephone numbers:
- Edifici Centre, 08320 El Masnou
- Telephones number: 93 540 50 02 / 93 542 47 00
- Fax: 93 540 80 59
- E-mail: museu.nautica@elmasnou.net
Museum Opening Hours:
- Tuesday - Friday: de 17 a 20 h.
- Saturday: de 11 a 14 h. i de 17 a 20 h.
- Sunday: de 11 a 14 h.
- The museum is closed on Monday
- The museum is closed the days 01/01, 05/01, 06/01, 01/05, from 15/08 to 31/08, 04/12, 25/12, 26/12, 31/12
EXHIBITION ROOM
- Permanent Exhibition Room is thought to contain naval
items.
- The Room of Archaelogy keeps the materials found in important prehistorical
deposits, both Iberians and Romans, such as the place called Cal Ros de
les Cabres.
THE COLLECTIONS
- Archaelogy. Almost all chronological periods can be
found in the Museum, from Prehistory to Roman period.
- Nautical collection. Different kind of objects are contained, such as:
navigation gadgets, objects from the toll-gate in the harbour of el Masnou,
a set of medical material on board, models of ships, votive objects and
virgins in connection with the sailor devotion from both the last 19th
Century and the beginning of 20th Century
- Bibliographical resources in nautical area.: Courses from 1787 to the
30s in the 20th Century are kept in the Museum, as well as pilot's study
books, an important collection of 200 charts from the captains of el Masnou,
and the study material of the Naval Scholl of el Masnou. Both the models
and the ships kept in the Museum allow visitors to know both the different
systems of navigation and the boats formerly piloted by captains from
el Masnou better.
- The Art gallery contains pictures by J. Pineda, J. Mongay, A.Jacobsen
and Moix Solé.
ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES
Activities and exhibitions
- School visits to the Museum.
- Modelling School.
- Library and documentary archives.
