Museo del Mar — Local services in San Juan

It’s actually surprising that a port as large and as important as San Juan doesn’t boast a much larger museum about its ties with the sea, and with its maritime heritage. Museo Del Mar tries to plug in this hole, but I wish this issue received sufficient funding and attention to create a more comprehensive facility. As it is, for a charge of $5pp, you can see replicas of various ships (incl. many cruise ships) which had visited SJ, a Guinness book record collection of life savers, few maps and some artifacts (sextants, clocks, barometers). English-language...

The Museo de Mar is a lovely, little hole-in-the-wall museum with cold air conditioning, which is a good thing in San Juan on a hot, July day. As far as its artifacts, it was a bit eclectic. It had about a dozen very nice model ships, a nice model of the Siege of Puerto Rico, a little section about the Titanic, and a handful of other nice items. Quite small, just a hallway, really, you can see the whole thing easily in about twenty to thirty minutes. For only five dollars, though, it’s a fair value. During my visit, I was the...

This museum is an interesting find. It contains a lot of information on various maritime crafts, past and present. It is discreetly situated between two buildings in Old San Juan. So, you can miss it, but it's within walking distance of another popular attraction in Old San Juan. My only issue is its small size. Other than that, there were tons of model ships, and interesting maritime facts, and interactive displays. There was a large display of life preservers from popular maritime vessels like...