Malta Maritime Museum
Seafaring museum in a Victorian naval bakery on the waterfront, home to ship models and votive art.
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This guide to the Malta Maritime Museum in Birgu, across the harbour from Valletta, follows one wounded knight of the Order of Saint John out of the Battle of Lepanto in October fifteen seventy-one, and the painted thank-you offering he left behind. It reads the saints, angels and demons crowding his panel, and asks who the kneeling man was. Best heard on the quay facing the old naval bakery's Windsor-style front.
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