Aegean Maritime Museum

The Aegean Maritime Museum started to operate on the island of Mykonos in 1985. The main goal of the Museum is to preserve, promote and study the history and tradition of the Greek marin industry. rent yacht mykonos In particular, its basic focus is on the evolution and activity of the merchant ships, especially around the geographic location of the Aegean Sea. The Aegean Maritime Museum can be found in a traditional Cycladic building of the 19th century, in the center of Mykonos, at Tria Pigadia. The particular building used to be the property of the legendary captain Nikolaos Sourmelis, who, with his merchant ship "Enosis", helped the Cretans in their resistance against the Turks. The exhibits of the Museum include ship models from the pre-Minoan period up until the beginning of the 20th century, historical naval documents, rare engravings and maps, ancient objects, naval instruments, accessories and tools, as well as coins with naval themes from the 5th century BC. .Χ. until the 5th century AD. The Museum's library consists of about 5,000 rare books, old and new editions, includes an archive of manuscripts and photographs and it is constantly enriched with all kinds of new artifacts that add up to the cultural heritage of the island. In the garden of the Museum there are marble copies of tombstones with relief representations from Delos and Mykonos, which refer to shipwrecks and sailors who were lost at sea.

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