A new museum dedicated to maritime antiquities should open its doors to Piraeus (Greece) on the Ionian coast in the summer of 2026. Designed by Tsolakis Architects and financed by the European Union up to 93 million euros, it is the most Large cultural project under construction in Greece. The museum, located on part of the Piraeus docks, will be connected to an old storage silo, “So that the geometry of the new building is a natural continuity of the existing – a spatial transfer from the old to the future” Indicate architects to the Greek media Lifo.
The museum, whose construction began in 2023, will extend over 26,000 m2 and include spaces for permanent and temporary exhibitions (7,550 m2), an amphitheater, a library, conservation workshops as well as a reception, A wardrobe, a shop, a restaurant and administrative offices.
The route of the exhibition will be made up of nearly 2,500 archaeological objects (wrecks, hulls and maps), most of which are currently stored in Pylos in the Peloponnese and on the islands of Rhodes and Paros in the Aegean Sea . The route, which will also integrate new technologies with tactile devices, will be divided into six chronological themes. He will start in the old silo, and will relate the history of “the sea, the environment, the man”, then will evolve to the new building, where “time capsules” will be presented with old ships. The whole will be connected by glass bridges that will give access to a panoramic view of the port of Piraeus and modern ships, in order “To highlight the considerable relationship of the Greeks with the sea, as well as the historical importance of the merchant navy for the social and economic development of the country”announced the Greek Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni.
The port of Piraeus was built in 493 BC. AD by the Sovereign Athenian Thémistocle where hundreds of sorters were stationed there (warships). Centuries later, the port has not lost its importance and is today the 28th world port in terms of maritime traffic.
