Tarragona Port Museum | Museu del Port de Tarragona

About Tarragona Port Museum

Refurbished and relaunched in summer 2021, the Tarragona port museum is the Port Authority's contribution to Tarragona city's cultural and historical spaces. The museum contains many artifacts about port life and the people that worked in the port throughout the ages.

For many years now, the Port has devoted the facilities on the Costa Wharf to civic and cultural uses and, over the years, it has been responsible for recovering and safeguarding the maritime and port heritage of Tarragona.

The museum explains the importance of the port from Roman times to modern day with an interactive display of the growth of the breakwater from Roman times, through the medieval, middle ages and early indistrialisation to containerisation and petro-chemical port facilities.

Exhibits about ship maintence from the days if sail to steam and marine diesel combustion. Port services such as customs, fire fighting and cargo manipulation as well as harbour dredging.

The exhibits tell us of life on the docks, the types of fishing, sporting activities, and the vessels and cargos linked to our seas. The port worker section compares uniforms of divers, dock security, dock workers and navel seamen and officers.

A small collection of historic sextants and radio navigation devices as well as the evolution of lighthouse bulbs explains how the port has evolved. Port clocks were also important so that ships depart on time with the tide and during the age of sail, with the wind.

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Visiting Tarragona Port Museum

The museum is Free entry all year round.

The Port of Tarragona Museum is located in a dock warehouse built between 1900 and 1930. The museum takes you on a journey through the history of the city's port from Roman times to the present day. Audio guides are available in Catalan, Spanish, English and French. The museum is child friendly.

Tarragona Port Museum Opening Hours

• Winter (October to May):
  • Tuesday to Saturday: 10:00h to 14:00h & 16:00h to 19:00h
  • Sunday and Holiday's: 11:00h to 14:00h
• Summer (June to September):
  • Tuesday to Saturday: 10:00h to 14:00h & 17:00h to 20:00h
  • Sunday and Holiday's: 11:00h to 14:00h
• Closed: Monday's, 25th & 26th December, 1st & 6th January.

Getting to Tarragona Port Museum

Address: Moll de la Costa s/n, Tarragona. 43004

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