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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