The Peral submarine in the Peral gallery

In 2013, the Cartagena Naval Museum opened a new gallery to exhibit the Spanish submarine Peral. This new exhibition space was explicitly designed to showcase parts from the submarine that had previously been missing, and to reveal a vital understanding of the Peral. This includes the conning tower, stanchions and platforms, propellers, horizontal rudders, anchors, as well as the cover and external opening mechanisms of the torpedo tube.

Permanent exhibitions and administrative departments are on the first floor of the Naval Base, in what was once the Slaves’ and Convicts’ Quarters. The building was renovated by Cartagena's Polytechnic University. A second exhibition space is near the first floor, in a former iron workshop. Built during the second half of the 19th century, it was the complex's shipbuilding workshop.