Macau - Maritime Museum

    The exhibition building of the Maritime Museum was built at the place where the first batch of Portuguese landed.
    The Museum looks like a special vessel anchored at the bay where the fishermen lived.
       The white outer wall looks like a ship with three masts full wind. The glass on both sides make one think of the observation towers.
    The inside of the museum is filled with oceanic atmosphere. At the booking office, is placed a jar of colourful gold fish.
    On the wall there hangs a huge hand-made porcelain brick painting, carved with a compass and points of the compass.
    Inside the Museum there is a piece of relief sculpture on which is inscribed the arrival of the Portuguese navigators at Macau. In the exhibition hall below are mainly displayed the circumstances of the groups of fishermen in the southern part of China. Visitors can see the tradition of the Macau fishermen in different halls, such as the story of A-Ma Temple (Ma Kok Miu), models of different Chinese sailing ships, the display room showing different kinds of fishing methods and the charts describing the traditional festivities in Macau. At the garret between the basement and the first floor, there display models of twelve Portuguese traditional vessels. On board the model ship, there is a small screen and through the pictures it shows. One can learn the origin and the use of the ships and at this floor, one can also enjoy the model of the maritime academy of a grand ship - Zagarez, which was built in proportion of the model shipyard in the Museum. The display on the third floor is to reproduce the great navigational discovery of journey, narrating the navigation history of east and west, the model of the bamboo rafts along the Chinese coastal line and the navigational great discovery of route chart by the Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and exhibits demonstrating the method of repairing ships sideways.
    At the attic of the museum, are exhibits on display concerning navigational technology and means of transportation. On the ceiling of the dome are constellations which can be observed from Macau. The visitors may accordingly try to find out which constellations they belong to. There are also installed four aquariums in the museum, which represent different under-water world.