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The exhibition, which opens next Friday, brings to light photographs of the Spanish Navy preserved in the Naval Museum of Madrid |

Next Friday, February 15 at 11:00 am, the exhibition 'Men and Ships opens at the Casa del Mar in Puerto de Mazarrón.

The photograph of the Spanish Navy in the Naval Museum (1850-1935) '.

The exhibition, which can be seen until March 10, is organized by the Ministry of Defense in collaboration with the City of Mazarrón.

The Technical General Secretariat of the Ministry of Defense, through the Subdirectorate General of Publications and Cultural Heritage, brings to Mazarrón a set of sixty-five photographs made up of current copies based on the original positives of the time preserved in the Naval Museum of Madrid.

These images have been selected among the more than two hundred published in the book of the same title published in 2007 by the General Subdirectorate of Documentation and Publications within the collection dedicated to military photography, which aims to disseminate the heritage made up of historical photography conserved by the Ministry of Defense.

With this exhibition there is an extensive tour through this stage of the history of the Spanish Navy.

Through the exposed images you can see the technical and formal evolution of the Navy from the immediate period to the Industrial Revolution to a fully technical Navy, as it appears in the years of the Republic.

Likewise, the recovery and diffusion of historical photographic funds existing in various institutions dependent on the Department is sought, in this case the Naval Museum that preserves a rich and varied background of historical photography from which a set of images with criteria of historical, documentary and artistic interest ".

The sample may be visited at the following times:

Tuesday and Wednesday: from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday: from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón