Vigo, Spain
Av. da Atlántida, 160,
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+34 986247750
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Museum located at the coast between some gorgeous beaches. And obviously someone was quite a beagle fan. :-)
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Really beautiful museum. Worth the visit! For architecture lovers: a Aldo Rossi's masterpiece!
Excellent museum for maritime buffs. And the architecture is outstanding. Give yourself at least half a day.
An interesting museum although almost all of the explanations were in Castillian or Galician. The only items of explanation in English were in the extension downstairs on such items as sardine canning. This is also a museum dedicated to other items of Galician culture such as costumes and the pre-history of the area. Everything relating to the sea including toys, board games, and The Beatles Yellow Submarine is here. Charles Darwin gets a mention due to his voyage on HMS Beagle.
The museum is interesting despite not being very thoroughly curated. Lot of exhibits were lacking in-depth explaination, and the cards in the acquarium were only loosely related to the fish actually there, some missing in the descriptions, some in the tanks... The temporary exhibit included some interesting equipment (most of it not really \museum grade\, you can find better 'bitacoras' in antique shops around the town), the submarine section was awesome with its original unique torpedo buoy and maritime rescue equipment. The biological cabinet is an interesting addiction despite lacking a unified discourse about the topic. The second, larger, room holds some interesting boats and models, while the lower floor -that we could only quickly visit- showcases some cool artifacts and finds about the maritime archaeology and anthropological history of Galicia. My main complaint is about the management of the place. The personnell is kind and caring, but the extremely convoluted suggested visit path for the musum is explained just through a quick rundown at the ticket desk, directions in the museum are non-existant. Oh, and the main issue: opening hours. That is the worst, a joke. Museum is open 11–14, 17–20. There is no way to visit temporary and permanent exhibits, the archeological floor, the biological cabinet, the acquarium in just one morning or afternoon. Visiting with a young kid we needed to take our time to explain many of the exhibits, so at some point we had to rush through part of the collections to have a chance to see the acquarium before closing time. I am at a loss trying to understand why the opening time is not continuous throughout the day, and will not come back until they fix this major issue.
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