Aegean Maritime Museum, Maritime museum in Tria Pigadia, Mykonos, Greece

The Aegean Maritime Museum occupies a 19th-century Cycladic building and displays ship models, maps, and navigational instruments spanning different periods. The collection also includes historical books, photographs, and manuscripts that document seafaring traditions in the Aegean region.

The museum was founded in 1983 as a non-profit institution and opened to the public in 1985 in a 19th-century Mykonian building in the Tria Pigadia area of Mykonos town. Its founder and chairman, George M. Drakopoulos, received the Athens Academy Award and the World Ship Trust's Award for Individual Achievement for establishing it.

The collection reflects how maritime life shaped communities throughout the Aegean, with everyday objects showing fishing practices, trade routes, and seafaring customs. These items reveal the deep connection between local people and the sea across different eras.

The museum stands in the Tria Pigadia area of Mykonos town, in the town centre, so it is reached on foot through the surrounding lanes. The garden, with the Armenistis Lighthouse and the sailors' gravestones, is part of the visit and is best seen before or after the indoor galleries.

The Armenistis Lighthouse, built in 1890, stands in the museum garden rather than in Athens; only the ships Thalis o Milesios (1909) and Evangelistria (1940) are at the Naval Tradition Park in Palaio Faliro. The garden also holds ancient marble gravestones of sailors gathered from Mykonos and Delos.