Library / Archive

Besides the collections of documents themselves, the Port Archive also provides an important additional library of about 9,500 volumes, mainly based on port and maritime themes: trade and shipping, marine navigation and seafarers, engineering, lighthouses, shipwrecks and rescue, fisheries and inland waterways, ships and shipbuilding and sport harbours to highlight a few.

The Local Section plays a considerable role as it is they who try to achieve those works, both of historical and economic nature, which may be useful for all users and for their research.

The collection of documents from other ports in Spain, as well as other international ports, should also be highlighted, for the rich and useful statistical data they contain.. Many of them go back to the mid-nineteenth century, when most works boards were created in Spain.

Special mention also to the actual Archive, which has more than 420 titles, mostly of maritime content, but also including newspapers and technical journals, engineering data and information on local history.

The oldest specimen preserved is an Archaeological Bulletin from the year 1901, followed by the number 57 of the magazine Lighthouses and Beacons of 1914.
 

 

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Digital Archive

Tarragona Port Archive has at hand an ambitious, titled project intended to make the most important and consulted documentary series in digital format available to researchers

Sources of Documents

In this section you will find which sources of documents you have at your disposal. In the majority of them you have access to download the inventory of the units which make them up.

Dissemination

From the Port Archive we have organized different kinds of events and activities with the aim of publicizing our Centre and our collections.

Award for research

To promote and encourage research efforts since 2004 the Port of Tarragona Research Prize is called, which is worth 6,000 Euros.

Educational Archive

The aim of informing higher and lower secondary students the important task which will be carried out at the Archive and Museum to preserve and disseminate

Library / Archive

Besides the collections of documents themselves, the Port Archive also provides an important additional library of about 9,000 volumes, mainly based on port and maritime themes

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