Malta Maritime Museum

Maritime Museum

The Museum, housed in the former naval balcony
Location within Malta
Location	Old Naval bakery, Vittoriosa, Malta
Coordinates	35°53′16″N 14°31′15″E / 35.887639°N 14.520833°E
Type	Maritime Museum
Website	www.heritagemalta.org

The Malta Maritime Museum is housed within the Old Naval bakery in Vittoriosa, it drafts Malta’s maritime history which is tightly bound to Mediterranean Sea. It also illustrates the global nature of seafaring and its impact on society from July 1992.^[1]
The museum houses numerous artefacts highlighting different epochs, shaping Maltese seafaring through paint, charts, evidence and sea technology evolution. So it shows Malta’s maritime history from prehistory to the present day.^[2]

Contents

Commemorative plaque of the opening of the museum

The contents are varied and display is still increasing thanks to donation and acquisitions:^[3]

• Amati Column (1651)^[4]
• Roman anchor
• Paintings of Naval Battles at the times of the Knights of St. John
• Cannons
• Presentation on the Royal Navy in Malta
• Bust of Queen Victoria
• The figurehead of the 110 gun HMS Hibernia (1804), a Napoleonic ship of the line now dismantled

Visiting

The museum opens daily from 9:00 to 17:00.

Furthur reading

• "New light shed on Malta’s 18th century corsairs in book by Liam Gauci"

External links

• Malta Maritime Museum - Visit Malta
• Malta Maritime Museum

Coordinates: 35°53′15.5″N 14°31′15″E / 35.887639°N 14.52083°E

References

1. "Birgu-Maritime". Global.net. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
2. Heritage Malta. "General Information". Retrieved 16 March 2010.
3. "Malta Maritime Museum". http://www.euromuse.net. Retrieved 16 March 2010. External link in |publisher= (help)
4. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20061230/local/national-maritime-museum.31027