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NAUTICAL MUSEUM OF CRETE

NAUTICAL MUSEUM OF CRETE
The Museum was inaugurated on the 27th May 1973, date of the 32nd anniversaryof the Battle of Crete.

It includes models of ships, various nautical instruments and objects such as range finders, barometers, wind-gauges, course and speed abaci, torpedo firing computer, magnetic boat compasses, meteorogical instruments, sextants, a planisphere, torpedo-boat steering gear, etc. There are also paintings, portaits, authentic historic photographs, such as the raising of the flag of the Union of Crete with Greece in the Firka fortress at Chania, on the 1st December 1913, etc. Also exhibited are relics such as uniforms and other memorabilia which belonged to the heroic dead of the Greek Navy, guns which had been used in the war of 1912-13, etc.

All the exhibits from the naval tradition of Greece are classified according to their historical periods, that is:Bronze age-Classical and Hellenistic (2800 BC-6th century AD). Venetian period (1200 AD to the 17th century), Byzantine and post-Byzantine period (650 AD to the 18th century), the period of the Ottoman rule-the struggles for Independence (1650-1909), the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), World War II (1940-1944), the post-War period (after 1944).

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NAUTICAL MUSEUM OF CRETE VIDEOS

Travel to Crete Video Gallery - MARITIME MUSEUM CHANIA - The maritime museum in Chania is considered the best one in Greece and one of the best in the world. A special section about the batle of Crete in the world war II. - A video with duration 1:54 and a size of 1.899 KB

NAUTICAL MUSEUM OF CRETE PHOTOS

MINOAN SHIP - Minoan ship (1700-1400 BC)- NAUTICAL MUSEUM OF CRETE

SEXTANT AND PLANISPHERE - Sextant and planisphere - NAUTICAL MUSEUM OF CRETE

INTERIOR VIEW OF THE MUSEUM - Interior view of the Museum - NAUTICAL MUSEUM OF CRETE