Colombia to build museum for Spanish galleon discovery, president says

Colombia to build museum for Spanish galleon discovery, president says

The museum will be built in Cartagena, near where the San Jose shipwreck was found last week 307 years after it sank, President Juan Manuel Santos said

Reuters in Bogotá
Saturday 5 December 2015 13.30 EST

Colombia will build a museum to showcase artefacts found in the wreckage of a Spanish galleon discovered near the historic Caribbean port city of Cartagena, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday.

The San Jose, thought by historians to be laden with emeralds and precious coins, sank in 1708. It was part of the fleet of King Philip V, who fought the English during the War of Spanish Succession.

“We will build a great museum here in Cartagena,” Santos said on national television from Cartagena’s naval base.

“Without a doubt, without room for any doubt, we have found, 307 years after it sank, the San Jose galleon,” Santos said.

More:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/05/colombia-spanish-galleon-san-jose-museum-cartagena