Hellenic Maritime Museum

The first try to set up the Hellenic Maritime Museum become inside the newly mounted Greek US in 1867. That year the draw close of the Navy Gerasimos Zochios, founding father of the Navy Retirement Fund, advised that the Fund takes the task of collecting and keeping gadgets associated with the Greek maritime facts. For motives concerning critical ancient adventures of the time the idea become now not undoubtedly obtained at the time. However, the idea changed into to be implemented as a personal initiative, eighty years later.

On April 7, 1949 a set of distinguished residents of Piraeus together with officials of the Navy and Merchant Marine, sharing a love for the ocean and ships, amassed in the workplace of the then Minister Gerasimos Vassiliadis and signed the memorandum of affiliation under the name "Maritime Museum Society and collection of national relics at sea." It changed into the beginning of the Maritime Museum and the number one presidency end up took thru the shipowner George Stringos. The museum is positioned at Freatida, close to Zea Harbour, in Piraeus and in its halls are exhibited more than 2,500 gadgets sorted chronologically and thematically, evoking the maritime statistics and tradition from prehistoric instances to the present day.