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The Museum shouold not really be open. The exhibits are badly laid out, and the lighting is poor. The staff on duty try to avoid contact with visitors. The blurb put ou t by the museum is PR spin
The Malta Maritime Museum has partly reopened its doors on February, 2024 to present a one-of-a-kind exhibition titled An Island at the Crossroads, after being closed for several years for substantial restoration and revitalization, which was partially supported by the EEA Norway Grants. Malta is an island nation, its destiny dictated by the waves that have battered its shores for centuries.
A bridge that has brought them into contact with the whole world. A world that has delivered to the island war, famine, riches and prosperity: creating in the process ‘An Island at the Crossroads.’ The result of curators past and curators present, ‘An Island at the Crossroads’ is our attempt to read between the lines and uncover the identity of this island nation.
Museum (currently undergoing restoration) The museum’s story is driven by a backbone of eclectic museum objects, all with an indelible link to the history of Malta, each giving an account of how faiths, cultures, and nations clashed or indeed co-existed on a rock, a surrounding sea, and an ever-smaller world. Discover how an extant anchor from Roman antiquity relates to the local faith and the community’s cultural memory; how the living of men and women alike in Malta depended predominantly on corsairing, the same activity antagonized in local folk stories; and how the search for statehood in the last century accompanied economic anxiety.
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