Hellenic Maritime Museum

In 1867, Captain G. Zohios, founder of the Sea Men’s Pension Fund (Region of the Navy’s Veterans) suggested a project of collecting and maintaining all objects which related to the Greek naval history and the establishment of a Naval Museum. 80 years passed and, in 1949, the first Naval Museum of Greece had its beginning. Finally, on 27 June 1955, the inauguration of the first “Hellenic Maritime Museum” took place. It was provisionally housed in a old and small, two-story building on Akti Moutsopoulou of Zea, Pireaus and in 1964 the National Tourist Organization (EOT) leased at a symbolic rate the plot of land where the museum is now located.