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This museum is great for anyone interested in ships and the history of the dockyards of Malta. Doesn't take too long either to see everything within. Maybe an hour and a half at the max if you read everything at each stall. Has a lot of ship equipment too such as cannons, tools and more. At the end there is a "dockyard experience". It's maybe 10 minutes long but it's just a few projectors showing some animations of dock work going on. It's based in a medium sized room. This is the only reason I'm taking a star away is because it's not as good as I was expecting. Apart from that, I highly recommend.
Aaron DelaneyAaron Delaney
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The maritime museum is located at the waterfront across from Grand harbour and has a rich collection in regards to Malta's seafaring history. Whilst there are some interactive elements, most of the museum is traditional and has a lots of artefacts and memorabilia as well as models and replicas. It is a nice rainy day museum where you can spend an hour or two if the weather is not in your favour. The combination ticket with Fort St. Angelo and the Inquisitors Palace is great value and will get you going a whole day. You get here easily from Valletta by taking the lift from the Upper Barrakka Gardens and the ferry across which is only €1.50. There is a room on the ground floor that is dedicated to steam and motorships which is quite interesting.
Rick JonssonRick Jonsson
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Feels very empty and very few artifacts which feel note worthy. The building is under reconstruction , while this is acceptable the way down from the third floor is a scafolding staircase, this isnt required but is purely done to maintain a 1 way system. The av dockyard experience was very interesting. Overall i Guess i was expecting more oh a History on the development of the dockyard post WW2. More about the ships and less of the general industry which made it feel very broad and unspecific. Malta pass was very convenient for visiting this site , highly recommend
jezzaftwjezzaftw
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The last experience with moving things and the 360 video is nice, everything else is kinda okaaaay. It’s difficult to follow just having some pieces of different things. They have screens for each item that just show the item with the description. I didn’t understand the function of the screens there. Like QRs that could lead to the website would be better in this case. Because the item is exhibited anyway, the screens just attract too much attention for nothing that you don’t even notice the object itself.
TravelerTraveler
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I give it three stars, because I was expecting more of a nation looking back at more than 500 years of naval history. This small museum is preserving a selection of relicts from French and Italian occupation as well as the ship construction under British reign. Some highlights are a handwritten letter from Napoleon Bonaparte. There could have been more information about the Saint John’s knights and the ships they used for the crusades and how they were specially equipped for this purpose,…
Armin-Carsten Boehm von HartzfeldtArmin-Carsten Boehm von Hartzfeldt
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Very nice small museum dedicated to docks and ships. Worth visiting as part of a combo ticket with the fortress and the Inquisitorial Palace. Personally, I recommend not to miss the lovely British Ladies' Diary on the top floor, which provides an insight into upper class life at the turn of the last century. Fun! Then the audiovisual installation at the end of the tour is amazing. Just wow.
David ProcházkaDavid Procházka
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The Malta Maritime Museum, Xatt l-Assedju l-Kbir, Birgu BRG 1721, Malta
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+356 2166 0052
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Website
maltamaritimemuseum.mt
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Overview
4.1
(507 reviews)
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cultural
family friendly
Description
The Malta Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Birgu, Malta. It is housed in the former Royal Naval Bakery, which was built in the 1840s as the main bakery for the Mediterranean Fleet. The museum has a collection of over 20,000 artifacts, and it is the largest museum on the island.
attractions: Fort St. Angelo, Esplora Interactive Science Centre, Inquisitor's Palace, Malta at War Museum, Rinella Bay, Birgu Waterfront, St. Lawrence's Catholic Church, Collegiate Church of the Immaculate Conception, Grand Harbour, Cugó Gran Macina, restaurants: BeBirgu, Terrone, Sottovento, The Little Bastion, Tal-Petut Restaurant, D Kalkara Regatta, Il-hnejja Restaurant, Marea
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