National museum of Gibraltar’s history, culture and natural history collections.
The Museo de Gibraltar, or Gibraltar Museum, is the national museum on the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, housed in Ordnance House on Bomb House Lane. Opened on 24 July 1930, it presents exhibitions on Gibraltar’s history, culture and natural history, including remains of fourteenth‑century Moorish baths.
The Museo de Gibraltar, also known as the Gibraltar Museum or Gibraltar National Museum, is the national museum of history, culture and natural history in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located in Ordnance House at 18–20 Bomb House Lane in central Gibraltar and officially opened on 24 July 1930. The museum was founded in 1930 by the then Governor of Gibraltar, General Sir Alexander Godley. Its displays present objects from the many centuries of Gibraltar’s past, portraying the long history of the Rock of Gibraltar and the culture of its people. A notable feature of the museum complex is the surviving structure of fourteenth‑century Moorish baths within the building, described as part of a Moorish bathing station. In the 1970s the museum housed the first office of the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society. Since 1991 the director has been Professor Clive Finlayson. In 2018 new legislation, the Heritage and Antiquities Act 2018, formally recognised the institution as the national museum of Gibraltar. The museum is classified as a national museum in Wikidata and in multiple Wikipedia sources and maintains an official website at gibmuseum.gi.
