Aegean Maritime Museum

nautiko mouseio aigaiou
nautiko mouseio aigaiou

Aegean Maritime Museum. Located by the Three Wells, next door to Lenaโ€™s House, this museum displays scale models of various rowing boats, sailing vessels and steam-powered ships which, in turn, from Prehistoric times until the present, have traversed the Aegean.

Also there is a rich collection of maps and other engravings can be seen a collection of reproductions of ancient gravestones, carved with sea-themes; there, as well, is the tower with the mechanism of the Armenisti Lighthouse (1889). The โ€œEVANGELISTRIAโ€, a traditional sailing vessel belonging to the museum, is moored every summer in the old harbor where it may be boarded by interested visitors.

Open, April to October, daily, 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and evenings from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. (tel.: +30 22890 โ€“ 22 700)

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