Exhibitions
Women and the Sea
This temporary exhibition informs the general public of women’s relationships with the sea down through the years, without forsaking the role they had played since ancient times in the folklore and mythology of the maritime world.
Read MoreThe Pursuit of Happiness
The Museum wishes to publicise a practically unknown episode in our seafaring history: the assistance by the Basque Country to the thirteen British colonies in their struggle against Great Britain to win independence in 1776.
Read MoreJuan de Alcega, Universal Tailor
The Basque Maritime Museum has recouped the story of Juan de Alcega, an illustrious Gipuzkoa personality who has now been forgotten. He was the author of the first tailors’ treatise published all over Europe.
Read MoreElkano, the first voyage around the world
It conducts a review of this major event from a different perspective, thanks to research by the museum’s director Xabier Alberdi and the resources used and created for the exhibition.
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The first item exhibited in the Basque Maritime Museum’s Musealiak space is a bronze bell made for an English sailing boat in 1867.
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This item is a silver “piece of eight” coin, struck in Mexico in 1741, and taken aboard the Hollandia vessel in 1743, which was sailing to Batavia.
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The “Musealiak” space presents the story of two dishes, made around 1920, which were part of the tableware of the luxurious Goizeko Izarra yacht.
Read More24H. A day aboard the Victoria
The exhibition homes in on the details of life on board, to immerse visitors in a voyage that changed the world.
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