Malta Maritime Museum, Maritime history museum in Birgu, Malta.
The Malta Maritime Museum is housed in a former royal bakery building on the Birgu waterfront and displays over 20,000 artifacts from maritime history. The collection includes traditional boats, navigational instruments, anchors, and other objects that document the long seafaring connections of this region.
The museum opened in 1992, but the building itself served as the principal bakery for the Mediterranean Fleet between 1842 and 1845. This industrial bakery used steam-powered machinery to produce food for naval ships.
The collection features traditional Maltese boats and vessels that show how maritime trade and fishing shaped daily life across generations. These objects tell the story of how the sea connected these islands to the wider Mediterranean and influenced the way people worked and lived.
The museum is located along the Birgu waterfront and is open to visitors daily. The building sits in an old harbor setting, so finding your way around the building layout takes some attention, and it is helpful to follow the exhibition signs throughout.
The collection holds one of the world's largest Roman lead anchors, weighing around 4 tons and originating from ancient ships. Combined with rare ship models from the era of the Knights of Malta, this reveals how important these islands were to many seafaring cultures across centuries.
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