| Nautical
Museum of Greece(Akti Themistokleous, Freattys, 185 37 Piraeus Tel:(+30-1)
4516822, 4516264) The Museum was founded in 1949 and comprises nine rooms,
where the nautical history of Greece, from prehistoric times to our day,
comes to life. Among the exhibits there are models of ancient and mondern
ships, paintings by some of the greatest 19th and 20th century Greek painters
of seascapes Prossalendis, Volanakis, Hadjis, etc.); also guns, maps, flags,
medals, nautical instruments, etc. There is also a specialized library
in the Museum with 10,000 volumes and rich archival material, a photographic
and film collection, which includes, among others, the archives of Admiral
Kriezis and approximately 200 maps (16th -20th centuries).
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