Museo Naval, Madrid.

Miguel, thank you for sharing those wonderful pictures. The workmanship is so special. The pictures are certainly an inspiration for me just starting out. I was in Madrid a few years ago and I wish I knew about this museum then.
Mark
 
Yeah. Been there. In the foyer they have a mural that depicts the Spanish Armada defeating Drake! OMG. Reality is only ethereal.
 
miguel92gom said:
I'm glad everyone is enjoying these photos and thankful there's so many knowledgeable people here in the forum to comment on these details. I learn something new everyday here.
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Gracias Miguel
Great pictures. A wonderful museum- I spent all day there last October, and could go back for more.. A lot of the models are contemporary by Spanish model builders, really amazing talent. Another very similar museum is the one in Copenhagen-lots of great models. Unfortunately, IMHO, the "modernizations" of the Musee de la Marine, and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, although more didactic for children and the occasional visitor, are disappointing to me. Many of their ship models are not in view... Am I just another old guy lamenting how the past was better?
Alex R
 
czarroman said:
Miguel, thank you for sharing those wonderful pictures. The workmanship is so special. The pictures are certainly an inspiration for me just starting out. I was in Madrid a few years ago and I wish I knew about this museum then.
Mark
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sounds like a perfect excuse to go back to Madrid!
 
Alex R said:
Gracias Miguel
Great pictures. A wonderful museum- I spent all day there last October, and could go back for more.. A lot of the models are contemporary by Spanish model builders, really amazing talent. Another very similar museum is the one in Copenhagen-lots of great models. Unfortunately, IMHO, the "modernizations" of the Musee de la Marine, and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, although more didactic for children and the occasional visitor, are disappointing to me. Many of their ship models are not in view... Am I just another old guy lamenting how the past was better?
Alex R
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Oh that's quite disappointing. Well I think some things were better in the past and some are better now. I was also quite disappointed when I went to Torre del Oro in Sevilla to se their model ships and they were also "didactic" but quite poor in quality. Can't really remember how good were the ones in the naval museum in Venice because I wasn't quite into scale ship building as I'm now (and I'm still quite new into this). I remember I wasn't disappointed in the models, only the architecture was subpar but can't blame them as it was the only free visit I found in Italy ROTF. Hopefully one day I'll be able to visit that museum in copenhagen you mention and I'd also love to visit the Victory and Cutty Sark in Britain and especially the naval museum of Saint Petersburg.
 
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You might also like the Barcelona Maritime Museum. With your ticket you can also visit the Santa Eulalia schooner.
 
Lorenzo said:
You might also like the Barcelona Maritime Museum. With your ticket you can also visit the Santa Eulalia schooner.
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Gracias Lorenzo. No sabía eso, queda anotado para mi próxima visita.

Thank you Lorenzo. I did not know that, noted for my next visit.
 
miguel92gom said:
Oh that's quite disappointing. Well I think some things were better in the past and some are better now. I was also quite disappointed when I went to Torre del Oro in Sevilla to se their model ships and they were also "didactic" but quite poor in quality. Can't really remember how good were the ones in the naval museum in Venice because I wasn't quite into scale ship building as I'm now (and I'm still quite new into this). I remember I wasn't disappointed in the models, only the architecture was subpar but can't blame them as it was the only free visit I found in Italy ROTF. Hopefully one day I'll be able to visit that museum in copenhagen you mention and I'd also love to visit the Victory and Cutty Sark in Britain and especially the naval museum of Saint Petersburg.
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Hi miguel92, it's a shame you didn't get well informed about what there is in Italy. You missed the Adriatic navy, the San Martino Museum and the Arsenal of La Spezia, etc. etc. etc. Frank
 
Frank48 said:
Hi miguel92, it's a shame you didn't get well informed about what there is in Italy. You missed the Adriatic navy, the San Martino Museum and the Arsenal of La Spezia, etc. etc. etc. Frank
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Hi Frank thank you so much for the info. I really appreciate it. You're right I wasn't informed about this at all. I made that trip as an architecture student and planned it accordingly.

I think I expressed myself a bit wrong or maybe I should have explained more. I enjoyed quite a lot my visit to Venice naval museum, it's just that I didn't care as much for naval models as I do now, but it was certainly interesting. Also with such beautiful architecture in every corner of Venice, the museum building itself wasn't impressive at all, but in no way does it make it a bad experience (I'm an architect as well so I might have an overly critical eye for buildings).

I will certainly go to the places you recommend next time I go to Italy. don't know when but now I'm really interested and it's been such a long time since the last time I went.
 
Alex R said:
Miguel,
Donde vives? Tienes fotos de tus modelos ? Hay algún grupo de modelistas de barcos en Mexico ?
Saludos,
Alejandro (Alex) Rosas
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Hola Alex. Tengo dos hilos aquí en el foro. Uno del Slavic Longship de Falkonet terminado y uno del Galeon San Francisco aun en proceso.

A decir verdad no sé de grupos de modelismo naval en México, me da la impresión que no es tan popular como en otros países pero probablemente haya alguno. Me da mucho gusto conocerte. También eres mexicano?
 
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