This is a good one. Built into one of the enormous forts guarding the entrance to the charming small harbour in Dubrovnik, the location is perfect. There is constant contemporary seagoing activity going on right outside its windows.
Most people who have not visited Dubrovnik would not be aware that the Republic of Dubrovnik had a similar seafaring history to Venice. It was much more important in a seafaring sense than most people realise.
This is, thus, a "real" maritime museum. It focuses almost entirely on shipping. The displays cover the maritime history of the region surrounding Dubrovnik from antiquity to the present. It concentrates, however, on the heyday of the Republic from the sixteenth to the beginning of the eighteenth century, when Bonaparte conquered the city state and ruined everything.
Display quality is high and the ambience in the vaulted limestone display halls is brilliant. Well worth visiting as is, of course, the city itself.
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