On Wednesday 15 January 2020 we had the pleasure of welcoming the students of IEK Delta 360 in the field of tourism. Students had the opportunity to see the permanent exhibition of the museum, which includes 2,500 exhibits such as relics, artifacts recovered from the seabed, paintings, maps, photographs, ship models, various nautical instruments and

The President, the Board of Directors and the staff of the Maritime Museum of Crete wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Creative 2020!

In celebration of the 106th anniversary of the Union of Crete with the rest of Greece, anniversary events were held. In the early hours of Sunday, December 01, 2019, at the end of the doxology at the Holy Metropolitan Church of Chania, the President of the Hellenic Republic held the Greek Flag at the Firka

A free tour took place on Saturday November 30, 2019 at the premises of the Maritime Museum of Crete. The tour was part of the highly successful free tour program of the Municipality of Chania “KNOWING OUR MUNICIPALITY”, which is being carried out in collaboration with Archeology, tourist and other local authorities, in order to

Tuesday morning, November 12, 2019, we had the honor and pleasure to receive at our Museum the Moldovan Ambassador Anatol Vangheli, who was in Chania to attend the inauguration of the Honorary Consulate of Moldova in Chania. A tour of our premises was attended by the new Honorary Ambassador Mr. Yiannis Theodoroglakis as well as

In the afternoon of Sunday, November 10th, we had the honor and the pleasure of being the Maritime Museum of Crete to welcome representatives of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to our premises. The Head of the Academic Delegates was the President of the School, Mr. Xie Fuzhan, who represented, and various departments of

The Maritime Museum of Crete participated in the work of the 21st Education and Modern Greek Cultural Heritage Information Meeting organized by the Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage in collaboration with the Greek section of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), on “Experiments: Performing Arts at the Museum ”, at the Ministry of Culture on

The Maritime Museum of Crete, on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the impaction to a stupor of the legendary Destroyer “ADRIAS” (L-67), invites you to the Anniversary Event “Memories of Pride” on October 22, 2019 at 18:30 in Athens, Historic Ethnological Society of Greece – National Historical Museum (Palace of the Old House), which

The Maritime Museum of Crete, actively participating in the Viewing of Local Tradition and Maritime History of our country, welcomed representatives of South Korea’s Shinsegae television coverage company. The theme of the production is “2500th Anniversary of the Battle of Salamis, Clash of Aegean Civilizations”. The Maritime Museum with exhibits related to this subject participated