Maritime Museum

The Maritime Museum occupies St John’s Fortress beside Dubrovnik’s Old Port. Its displays connect ships, maritime objects and the history of navigation with the harbour immediately outside the fortress. The relationship between trading city and defensive architecture is especially clear here: a collection devoted to seafaring sits inside the building that guarded Dubrovnik’s approach from the sea. Include the museum on a walk from the Rector’s Palace through the Old Port to Porporela, then compare the museum’s maritime subjects with the harbour’s physical layout. The Maritime Museum and the Aquarium occupy different parts of the fortress and should be treated as separate visits.