Almirante Ramalho Ortigão Maritime Museum has received 2000 visitors since its reopening

About 2000 people have already visited the Maritime Museum Almirante Ramalho Or​tigão, in Faro, since its reopening a year ago.

Marinha recalls that this is «the oldest museum in the Algarve», which «earlier this year celebrated its 130th anniversary, although it has been closed for almost two years due to a fire in the same building in 2015».

However, the space "never left the heart of the Algarve, and of the Farenses in particular, and the proof of this is the number of visitors, which has gradually increased since its reopening."

According to the Navy, "there has also been a growing acceptance of foreign visitors, who represent around 60% of total visits."

​​The Maritime Museum displays an ethnographic collection about maritime activity and Algarve fishing. It has three distinct rooms – Baldaque da Silva, Lyster Franco, Manuel Bívar – where fishing vessels and other vessels, fishing gear and utensils, instruments, equipment and on-board equipment, among others, are exhibited.

The space is open every weekday between 14:30 and 17:00, but it receives, by appointment, groups at other times to be agreed.