Naval and Maritime Museums: Greece

Andros

Maritime Museum of Andros

Municipality of Andros,
GR-84500 Andros.

Telephone: +30 (0)282 22275
Telefax: +30 (0)282 24166

Crete

Maritime Museum of Crete

Akti Kountourioti,
GR-731 36 Canea,
Crete.

Telephone: +30 (0)821 91875
Telefax: +30 (0)821 74484
E-mail: root@mar-museum-crete.cha.forthnet.gr
WWW or Gopher

Opening hours: November-March, daily 10:00-14:00; April-October, daily 10:00-16:00.

Galaxidi

Nautical Museum of Galaxidi

Community of Galaxidi,
GR-330 52 Galaxidi.

Telephone: +30 (0)265 41795, 41558
Telefax: +30 (0)265 41954

Kastelorizon/Castellorosso

There is a small maritime museum at the harbour on this island which once housed a busy shipping community.

Mykonos

Aegean Maritime Museum

Mykonos.

WWW: http://mykonos.forthnet.gr/general/aegeam/museum1.htm

Piraeus

Nautical Museum of Greece

Akti Themistokleus,
Freattys,
GR-185 37 Piraeus.

Telephone: +30 (0)1 4526822, 4516264
Telefax: +30 (0)1 4516822

Museum of the Merchant Marine

Terma Ekonomou & Xanthopoulidou,
Hadjikyriakeio,
P.O. Box 84131,
GR-185 38 Piraeus.

Telephone: +30 (0)1 4281665, 4510380, 4518270
Telefax: +30 (0)1 4178101

Museum of Naval Tradition

Akti Tzelepi 4,
GR-185 31 Piraeus.

Telephone: +30 (0)1 4114096, 4125030
Telefax: +30 (0)1 4533671

Giorgios Averof (1910), armoured cruiser.

Maritime Museum of Thera

a) GR-847 02 Oia-Thera.

Telephone: +30 (0286) 71156
Telefax: +30 (0286) 71271

b) Karaiskou 120 and Bouboulinas 31-33,
GR-??? ?? Piraeus.

Telephone: +30 (01) 4296740-1
Telefax: +30 (01) 4296858

Poros

Poros naval base

The island of Poros in the Aegean.

Georg Averoff (1910), Armoured cruiser/pocket battleship built in England in 1910. ~10,000 tons, 4x10" 8x6" main armament. Check before visiting; About 1980 it was still an active training base.

Only open Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. It is possible the base might have been closed or the ship moved since then. Day trip from Athens.

Symi

(Maritime Museum)

Symi was once an active port with a shipyard which turned out hundreds of crafts a year.

The museum houses a number of models of Greek sailing vessels and boats as well as a collection of shipyard tools, rigging blocks and other artifacts. A diver's suit and an air pump reminds of the sponge fising days.

Photography in the museum is not allowed.

Nautical Museum of Oinousses

Nautical Museum of the Aegean

a) 10, Enoplon Dynameon,
GR-846 00 Mykonos.

Telephone: +30 (0)289 22700

b) Athens office: 2, D.Gounari,
GR-185 31 Piraeus.

Telephone: +30 (0)1 4222880

Telefax: +30 (0)1 4222891

Updated 1998-07-06 by Lars Bruzelius

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