The Museo Naval de Madrid is a state-owned entity, with national category, attached to the Ministry of Defense.
The Museo Naval and its affiliated museums (el Museo Marítimo de la Torre del Oro (Sevilla), el Archivo Museo Don Álvaro de Bazán de Viso del Marqués (Ciudad Real), el Museo Naval de Cartagena (Murcia), el Museo Naval de Ferrol (A Coruña), el Museo Naval de Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) y el Museo Naval de San Fernando (Cádiz), work work together in the research, conservation and dissemination of the tangible and intangible heritage of the Spanish Navy, with the purpose of showing the public the history of the Spanish Navy and its contribution to the institutional, social, cultural, economic and scientific progress of Spain.