The Maritime Museum Almirante Ramalho Ortigão, the oldest museum in the Algarve will reopen on Friday, 27th July.
According to the Southern Maritime Command, a reopening ceremony will take place at 11:00 am in the Maritime building at the harbour in Faro.
The event will be attended by the great and the good, and the Mayor of Faro, the Regional Director of Culture and the Director of the Navy’s Cultural Commission.
The museum houses an ethnographic collection on maritime activity and the Algarve’s fishing industry where equipment, tools, instruments and all things maritime are on display across three rooms.
The museum will be open between 14:30 and 16:30 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays with Wednesdays reserved for booked visits for groups.
The Almirante Ramalho Ortigão Maritime Museum - the oldest in the Algarve - was created on January 4, 1889 and then was called the Museu Industrial Marítimo da Escola Pedro Nunes.
Its collection was assembled from objects and models built privately by the Navy Officer, António Artur Baldaque da Silva, a collection that was exhibited at the Paris World Fair (Exposition Universelle) in 1900.
In 1916, the collection formally was handed over to the Navy and Commander Ramalho Ortigão helped preserve and reorganise the exhibits to form the basis of the Museum opened in 1931 in the Southern Maritime Department.
In 1946, the Maritime Museum was renamed the Museu Marítimo Almirante Ramalho Ortigão, in honour of its founder, and settled at its current address between 1962 and 1964.
Rua Comunidade Lusíada 8000 – 253 Faro
telf.: + 351 289 894 990 | fax: + 351 289 894 997 | museu.ramalho.ortigao@marinha.pt
