The Malta Maritime Museum is housed within the Old Naval bakery in Vittoriosa, it drafts Malta

Malta

Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

’s maritime history which is tightly bound to Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

. It also illustrates the global nature of seafaring and its impact on society from July 1992.

The museum houses numerous artefacts highlighting different epochs, shaping Maltese seafaring trough paint, charts, evidence and sea technology evolution. So it shows Malta’s maritime history from prehistory

Prehistory

Prehistory is the span of time before recorded history. Prehistory can refer to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it refers to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing...

 to the present day.

Contents

The contents are varied and display is still increasing thanks to donation and acquisitions:

• Roman anchor
• Paintings of Naval Battles at the times of the Knights of St. John
• Cannons
• Presentation on the Royal Navy
  Royal Navy
  The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
  
   in Malta
• Bust of Queen Victoria
• The figurehead of the 110 gun HMS Hibernia (1804)
  HMS Hibernia (1804)
  HMS Hibernia was a 110-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Plymouth dockyard on 17 November 1804, and was the only ship built to her draught, designed by Sir John Henslow....
  
  , a Napoleonic ship of the line now dismantled

External links

• Malta Maritime Museum - Visit Malta
• Malta Maritime Museum