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Yacht models & half-hull models
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Museo Naval, MadridThe naval
museum in Madrid shows in chronological order the most important historical
pieces procured by the navy from the Catholic Monarchs (1474 - 1517) to the
present day. Exhibited are nautical instruments, artillery pieces, maps, ship
models and paintings portraying vessels and historical naval scenes. The
homepage of the
Museo Naval is in Spanish only, but there is one
information leaflet in English. It shows the layout of the museum and the
exhibits in each room. We were there in May 2009 and found it a very fine, interesting museum with fascinating exhibits. However, there was one serious drawback: all ship models and many other exhibits were behind glass, and they used a very poor glass with high reflection. It was very difficult to get a clear view, and with large objects we had to permanently shift position to view area by area. Taking photographs was difficult, too, but I show two exhibits I was very impressed by. One is a model of the "Nuestra Senora de la Conception y de las Animas", most probably the first three-decker the Spanish Navy launched in 1688. The ship and its construction were very well documented in the shipbuilding manuscript Arte de Fabricar Reales by Antonio de Gaztaņeta Yturribalzaga, written in 1688. The other
one is a model of the three-decker Real Carlos
of 1766. Of course there was a room focussing on the famous Spanish achievements in the age of discovery, with very fine exhibits, like the models of Columbus' ships. However, light reflections of the show case glasses were too bad to take photographs there.
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