Nautical Museum of Chania

The Nautical Museum of Chania is a museum in Chania, Crete, Greece. Its series consists of models of ships, nautical contraptions, portray, historical pix and warfare relics. The fabric is assessed chronologically, beginning from the Bronze Age as much as our instances. The fundamental series is positioned at the doorway to the Firka Fortress, at the West facet of Chania harbour. The exhibits of the first ground include fashions of historical ships, a version of the fortified city and port underneath Venetian rule, a version that indicates shipbuilding and restore homes, with a rowing ship inner.

The 2nd floor reveals consist of models of current Hellenic Navy ships, destroyers, a missile boat, a touchdown deliver with trucks and APVs on board. The well-knownshows encompass the full bridge of a destroyer and two torpedo propulsion units. A section of the museum is devoted to the German invasion of Crete. In the Moro Shipyard at the eastern quit of the harbour is a smaller exhibition of historical naval structure. This is ruled by using a 17m experimental replica Minoan ship built among 2001 and 2004 and in the end sailed and rowed to Piraeus.