
Maritime Cultural Heritage
The Museu Marítimo EXEA works with tangible heritage (vessels, material culture...) and intangible heritage (language, lifestyle, navigation, division of labor, superstitions, music, dances) born from human interaction with the Atlantic Ocean.
Curiosity
The Museu Marítimo EXEA was founded in March 2021, but it began to be conceived in 2015, being the result of two academic works at the Universidade de Coimbra: a dissertation and a thesis.


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Aboard the MV Montevideu Maru, a Japanese merchant ship, are over a thousand prisoners of war, mostly Australian soldiers and officers. They had been captured by the Japanese during the first months of battles that followed the start of Japanese expansion in Southeast Asia in late 1941 and early 1942.