Navy Museum
Praça do Império - 1400 Lisboa
Maritime Museum: Battle of tha Cape São Vicente (Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio)
Phone: (+351) 213.620.010
URL: Navy Museum
Navy Museum
Partly lodged in the Hieronimyte Monastery, it displays models of square-rigged caravels, fluvial boats and coasters from the age of the Discoveries to the 19th century, besides arms and uniforms, navigational instruments and maritime charts.
The library contains works on the Discoveries, navigation issues, the development of the Merchant Marine and the Navy, Lisbon and the waterside zone.
It includes the Calouste Gulbenkian Planetarium.
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