The Itsasmuseum of Bilbao, or the Maritime Museum of Bilbao stands on what were once the Euskalduna shipyards. Since 2003, inside those spaces there is the Maritime Museum of the Estuary of Bilbao: 27,000 square meters that offer a look of admiration, didactic and nostalgic on the naval, industrial and commercial past of the city.
Symbol of the museum and also of the previous construction sites is the Carola crane.
The exhibition space is divided into three zones that trace the history of the evolution of the Nervión Estuary over the course of history: here the iron of the foundries, the wool of Castile, the manufactures of Northern Europe, the coal and minerals of the 19th century.
The museum also describes the different phases of the port of Bilbao which between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries became an industrial port of fundamental logistical reference.
In the spaces of the museum are preserved lifeboats, boats, gabarre, galleons, tugs, oil tankers and the types of ships typical of the estuary of Bilbao: among these also an ancient pilot boat of the port pilots or the racing sailboat BBK Euskadi Europa , with which José Luis Ugarte went around the world alone during the Vendee Globe regatta.
The Museum also offers a space for temporary exhibitions relating to the maritime history of Bilbao.
We organize workshops, educational and dissemination activities.
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