EVENTS OF YEAR 2007

 

HMM CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
1/12/2007-6/1/2008

On the 1st December 2007, the Christmas Bazaar of the Maritime Museum opened its gates for the third consecutive year and remained open until the end of the Christmas period. Visitors had the opportunity to find HMM publications, small presents and office equipment at low prices. The bazaar also included a large variety of paintings, namely works of famous contemporary painters which had been donated to the Museum.

 

HMM participation in the exhibition “Balkan Wars 1912-1913. The torpedoing in Thermaikos Gulf by Lieutenant Nikolaos Votsis”.
War Museum
Thesaaloniki, 25/10/2007-15/2/2008

This was an exhibition dedicated to the Balkan Wars and especially to the daring attempt of Lieutenant Nikolaos Votsis, Commanding Officer on board torpedo boat “11”, to torpedo the Turkish battleship “Feth-i-Bulend” in the port of Thessalonica which was still under the Turkish rule.

The HMM participated by lending relics and photographic material.

European Days of Cultural Heritage
“Common Greek Residences and the Floating Residencies of the HMM”
September 2007

The theme “familiar stories”, which was selected by Greece for the years 2007 and 2008, gave us the opportunity to reexamine our collections this time looking for floating residences instead of floating means of transportation. We discovered new stories together with our young or adult visitors; stories of the palafitos, houses in Chile standing on poles over the sea as well as stories of the ocean liners and the yacht “Christina”, Onassis’ famous floating residence.

 

“Sea Routes”
International temporary exhibition at the HMM
18-30/7/2007

The Hellenic Maritime Museum, as part of its participation in the European programme “Network of Associations and Museums for the protection of the Cultural heritage of the Mediterranean”, hosted the international temporary exhibition “Sea Routes” from 18th to 30th July 2007.
A multidimensional recast of the history of the Mediterranean (in terms of geology, history, archaeology, folklore and finance) was attempted with the help of modern technology and virtual reality.
A total of 65 Mediterranean museums participated in the exhibition with items such as archaeological findings, valuable miniature works made of corals, ancient shipwreck representations, ship models, etc. The objective was to show the link connecting all the peoples and the great civilizations which were born and which developed in the arms of the Mediterranean.  It also aimed at taking visitors on a trip in the waves of the Mediterranean history.

The exhibition was inaugurated by the Deputy Minister Anastasios Nerantzis.

 

Maps of the Aegean Sea and objects from the legendary warship “Adrias” travel from the Maritime Museum to Andros Island.
Exhibition area of Andros Holidays Hotel
Andros, 17-22/5/2007

As part of the celebrations titled “ANDROS: Hospitality, Sea, Culture” and  organized by the “Adrias” Marine Association, the HMM organized an exhibition in the exhibition area of Andros Holidays Hotel.

 

This was a three-level exhibition: It consisted of relics of the historical destroyer “Adrias”, which also gave its name to the organizing association, as well as personal objects belonging to the vessel’s Commanding Officer, Admiral Ioannis Toubas. Moreover, part of the museum’s map collection was presented, including rare maps of Evia and the Cyclades which were charted by famous cartographer of the 16th, 17th and 18h century. Finally, the exhibition included paintings of the Maritime painting collection by important seascape painters such as Chatzis, Romanidis, Prosalentis and others.