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- "Cartagena is a tourist city with a vocation of excellence and both residents and visitors demand the opening of the Museum during the weekend to be able to know firsthand what our history is," said the mayor of the orange formation in Cartagena, Ana Branch.

Citizens will ask at the next City Council to urge the competent authority to take into consideration the extension of summer time of the Naval Museum of Cartagena, which depends on the Spanish Navy, to remain open on weekends, The ones that more tourists could access to the enclosure.

This museum, located on the south facade of a historic building dating from the late 18th century (1785), was conceived as a Barracks of Presidents and Slaves, converted into a Marine Instruction Barracks after the Civil War in 1946, and since 2005 houses the Naval Museum And the Faculty of Enterprise Sciences of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena.

According to the mayor of Ciudadanos in Cartagena, Ana Rama, "as it appears from the portal of the Navy, the Naval Museum of Cartagena is the only one, next to the Canaries, which does not open on the weekends of the summer period, and I think That we must work to reverse this situation. "

"Cartagena is a tourist city with a vocation for excellence and both residents and visitors demand the opening of one of the most important museums of the municipality during the weekends to be able to know firsthand what our history is," said Rama.

"We Cartagena have the privilege of having the Naval Museum of Cartagena within the cultural and tourist offer of our city, and we have to make the most of it, many people can not visit it during the week for their work obligations and can do so only during The weekend, in addition to the number of foreign and domestic tourists who visit our city those days, "said the mayor.

Ana Rama, explained that "in this Museum we find a permanent collection that covers the History of the Navy from the creation of the Maritime Department of Levante in 1728 to the present day.This collection is composed of pieces related to shipbuilding, cartography and navigation , Naval artillery, naval health, flags and uniforms, and since 2013 has a monographic room, located in a building next to Isaac Peral with the original prototype of the submarine.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena