The Museum was inaugurated on the 27th May 1973, date of the 32nd anniversary of the Battle of Crete. It includes models of ships, various maritime instruments and navigational accessories, such as range-finders, barometers, wind-gauges, course and speed abaci, torpedo firing computer, magnetic boat compasses, meteorological devices, sextants, planispheres, torpedo-boat steering gear etc.
The Museum was inaugurated on the 27th May 1973, date of the 32nd anniversary of the Battle of Crete. It includes models of ships, various maritime instruments and navigational accessories, such as range-finders, barometers, wind-gauges, course and speed abaci, torpedo firing computer, magnetic boat compasses, meteorological devices, sextants, planispheres, torpedo-boat steering gear etc.There are also paintings, portaits, authentic historical photographs, such as the raising of the flag of the Union of Crete with Greece at the Firka fortress in Chania, on December 1st 1913, etc. Also exhibited are relics such as uniforms and other memorabilia which belonged to the heroic dead of the Greek Navy, guns which had been used by landing forces in the war of 1912-13, etc.All the exhibits from the naval tradition of Greece are classified according to their historical periods, that is: Bronze age - Classical and Hellenistic (2800 BC-6th century AD), Venetian period (1200 AD to the 17th century), Byzantine and post-Byzantine period (650 AD to the 18th century), the period of the Ottoman rule and the struggles for Independence (1650-1909), the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), World War II (1940-1944), the post-War period (after 1944).