The Maritime Museum of the Aegean is a Private Non-Profit Institution which was founded in 1983. It is housed since 1985 in a traditional cycladic building of the 19th century, which was earlier the house of the heroic captain and fighter, Nikolaos Sourmelis.
The purpose of the Museum is the promotion of the rich naval history of our land and the importance that sea has on travel, commerce, and the spreading of ideas and culture.
In December 1987 the founder, George Drakopoulos, was honored for the establishment of the Museum with the Academy of Athens Award.
The Museum's exhibits include models of ships from pre-Minoan era up to the beginning of the 20th century, historical maritime documents, rare engravings and maps, ancient objects, marine instruments, accessories and tools, as well as coins with maritime themes from the 5th century BC.
In the garden of the Museum there are marble copies of tombstones with relief representations from Delos, referring to shipwrecks and sailors lost at sea.
Among its other exhibits, the Aegean Maritime Museum undertook and completed the preservation of living historical exhibits which it restored and today operate again with the technology of their time. These are the lighthouse "Armenistis" of Mykonos (built in 1890), the Aegean sailing ship "perama" "Evangelistria" (built in 1940) and the cable steamship "Thales of Miletus" (built in 1909).
Enoplon Dynameon 10, Mykonos (Cyclades)
Telephones: +30 22890 22700 +30 210 8125547
Website: https://www.aegean-maritime-museum.com/en/contact/