Naval rooms in the Pontevedra museum.
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In the García Flórez building you can see the different rooms the museum devotes to the nautical science, this will remember you that Pontevedra is a city opened to the sea, and that the sea is etched in its history.
The contents of these rooms proceed from the Escuela Naval Militar (military nautical school) in the city of Marín, in 1943, and the Museo Naval de Madrid (Madrid nautical museum). However, the majority of the objects were already in the museum thanks to the donations of the following people: the Méndez Núñez heirs, the Sociedad Arqueológica (Archaeological society), the Mareantes guild, Castro Sampedro, and other people that wished that Pontevedra could remember its linked past with the sea.
The past navigations memories are present in the first room "Los orígenes de la Marina" (The navy origins). The second room is devoted to sailors and seafarers, and houses models of vessels, flags, oil paintings, engravings and references to the nautical battle of Rande, in the city of Vigo. You will be surprised by an old model of the vessel Santa María, in former times known as La Gallega, and probably built in the shipyards of Pontevedra.
The Méndez Núñez room reproduces the possible office of the famous seaman who lived and died in Pontevedra, in a house situated near the museum, in the square that nowadays receives the name of this singular person.
To finish the visit, you will observe the Numancia frigate chamber, this was the first battleship of Spain, and its name was related to Méndez Núñez and the bombardment of El Callao. The soft lighting, the curved walls, emulating those of a vessel, the narrow stern, the slanting position of the floor, and the objects will give the visitor the magical sensation of actually being inside a vessel.
The contents of these rooms proceed from the Escuela Naval Militar (military nautical school) in the city of Marín, in 1943, and the Museo Naval de Madrid (Madrid nautical museum). However, the majority of the objects were already in the museum thanks to the donations of the following people: the Méndez Núñez heirs, the Sociedad Arqueológica (Archaeological society), the Mareantes guild, Castro Sampedro, and other people that wished that Pontevedra could remember its linked past with the sea.
The past navigations memories are present in the first room "Los orígenes de la Marina" (The navy origins). The second room is devoted to sailors and seafarers, and houses models of vessels, flags, oil paintings, engravings and references to the nautical battle of Rande, in the city of Vigo. You will be surprised by an old model of the vessel Santa María, in former times known as La Gallega, and probably built in the shipyards of Pontevedra.
The Méndez Núñez room reproduces the possible office of the famous seaman who lived and died in Pontevedra, in a house situated near the museum, in the square that nowadays receives the name of this singular person.
To finish the visit, you will observe the Numancia frigate chamber, this was the first battleship of Spain, and its name was related to Méndez Núñez and the bombardment of El Callao. The soft lighting, the curved walls, emulating those of a vessel, the narrow stern, the slanting position of the floor, and the objects will give the visitor the magical sensation of actually being inside a vessel.
