Ναυτικο Μουσείο Αιγαίου - Aegean Maritime Museum
Sea captain's nineteenth-century house holding ship models, charts and a restored lighthouse.
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This guide to the Aegean Maritime Museum in Mykonos opens with an old sailors' warning about never forgetting your loaf of bread, a joke that turns serious once you consider how sailing ships actually failed at sea. It follows Captain Nikolaos Sourmelis, whose nineteenth-century house this is, his merchant brig Enosis, and his role supplying Crete during its revolt against Ottoman rule. Along the way you'll hear how the island's windmills and a centuries-old bakery kept ships provisioned with bread built to survive weeks unspoiled. Look closely at the ship models and charts inside before stepping out to the rebuilt lighthouse in the garden.
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