MALTA MARITIME MUSEUM

Since its reopening on February 9, 2024, it has been presenting an exhibition (no doubt temporary) entitled Une île à la croisée des chemins. Its aim is to shed light on the identity of this island nation over the centuries. The exhibition includes a year-long program of activities: conferences, events on the history of taste, educational programs for children... Eventually, visitors will even be able to spend a night inside the maritime museum. Indeed, after several years of closure, which enabled substantial restoration and revitalization of the museum, partly financed by grants from the EEA Norway, you'll once again be able to contemplate all the museum's riches. The story is told through the presentation of a series of eclectic objects, all indelibly linked to the history of Malta. And each telling the story of how religions, cultures and nations have clashed or even coexisted on a rock, a surrounding sea, and an ever-smaller world. We'll discover how the strong roots of Roman antiquity are linked to the local faith and the community's cultural memory, and how the lives of men and women in Malta depended mainly on privateer incursions. We'll discover their activities through local folk tales and how, in the last century, the search for a state was accompanied by great anxiety, mainly on the economic front.