The Maritime Museum (; pt, Museu Marítimo) is a
museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...
in
São Lourenço,
Macau
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,
China
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.
History
The construction of the museum was proposed in 1986. The museum was finally opened in 1987. Because of space constraint, new museum building was constructed and opened on 24 June 1990.
Architecture
The museum building spans over 800 m
2 of area and was built on the site where the first
Portuguese
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* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
explorers landed on Macau in 1553. The building resembles the shape of a ship.
Exhibitions
* Maritime Ethnology Exhibition
* Maritime History Exhibition
* Maritime Technology Exhibition
* Aquarium Gallery
See also
*
List of museums in Macau
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
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References
External links
*
1987 establishments in Macau
Museums established in 1987
Museums in Macau
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