Visit
Free
Guided tours are available for groups and in different languages. Consult availability and prices
Education programme
Accessible for those with reduced mobility.
Address
Carrer de Josep Pujadas Truch, 1A.
08320 El Masnou
Address
By train: RENFE destination Ocato, Line R1
By coach: SARBUS, C10 Barcelona-Mataró
By car: Car park in the same building (entrance of Carrer Itàlia)
Opening hours
| Thursday and Friday | ,5.00 to 8.00 pm |
| Saturday | 11 am to 2 pm |
Days closed each year: 1, 5 and 6 January, Good Friday, 1 May, Easter Monday, 29 June (Sant Pere), 24, 25, 26 and 31 December and August.
Information
Museu Municipal de Nàutica del Masnou
Telephone: 935 571 830
Presentació. La construcció d’un vaixell. Mòdul de la Mirada Tàctil. Museu de la Nàutica del Masnou
The Masnou Municipal Nautical Museum was created in 1962, driven forward by a group of citizens aware of the need to safeguard local heritage with respect to equipment and seafaring. As the collections continued to grow and a new museum presentation was needed, the Museum was transferred to its current site, which opened in 2001.
The majority of the Museum’s collections come from donations and unpaid contributions from numerous town residents, where the collection of Josep Emili Sala i Barbarà (1969) is particularly notable.
The permanent exhibition
The exhibition takes us on a journey that explains how the sea was the setting and engine of development of the municipality, of change and human transformation.
Discourse centres on the municipality’s era of greatest splendour, the 19th century, when shipbuilding and sea trade reached its zenith.
You can learn how shipyards work, the most common transatlantic commercial routes, the products transported, famous captains and ships, as well as getting an idea of how tough life was aboard the ships. You will even have the chance to learn about the pious owner who gave thanks to the Mother of God ‘for having let him work freely and unimpeded in contraband for six years’.
Seeing by Touch
This initiative by the Barcelona Provincial Government Local Museum Network, ‘seeing by touch’ is a touch module with explanations in Braille, so that the sight impaired and blind can touch the model of a merchant ship and experience a storm at sea through the narrated story from a ship logbook.
Model makers’ workshop
The goal of this workshop, managed by the Masnou Association of Model Ship Makers and with collaboration from the Museum, is to foster the revival, research and knowledge of the world of ships and the sea.Its members work actively in educational tasks and in establishing and cleaning the ship models in the Museum’s collection.
Address
Museu municipal de nautica del masnou
Carrer de Josep Pujadas Truch, 1A
08320 El Masnou