Maritime Museum of Lloret, Can Garriga (1887)

A trip to the town´s past.
The Maritime Museum, wich is located in the Casa Garriga, is the entranceway to the Lloret Open Museum. It is strategically located in the centre of town, accupying an old "Indiano" house on the seaside boulevard. The centre summarises all of the elements the make up the heritage of Lloret de Mar, using the sea as the common thread or guiding principle. The museum focuses on the landscape, the archaelogical heritage, the history, and the physical and human landscape.
Just as the City Hall, built in 1872, closed off Verdaguer street to the west, the façade of one of the Garriga houses closed it off to the east, giving this area a very pronunced character.
This will entail considerable effort on Lloret´s part but one within its reach to preserve a building which, like so few others, bears witness to the splendorous past the 1800s naval period, since Garriga houses are directly related to Lloret´s colonial past.
The emblematic Garriga Houses will become the Tourism Office and the Museu of the Sea. Thanks to the new museum based techniques and the inclusion of educational and entertaining features, visitors to the Maritime Museum can partake in the authentic trip through the history of Lloret and its links to the sea. This exhibition centre have 5 essential parts of interpretation of the history of lloret de Mar; The son´s of Lloret, Mare Nostrum, Sailing around the world, Lloret maritime ancestor´s and the sea: Lloret looks to the futue.