Malta Maritime Museum to expand by 500 square metres

The Malta Maritime Museum in Vittoriosa will increase the total area of its public museum and exhibition space, and extend its online outreach with the digitisation of 2,600 objects from its collection. The total area of visitors’ facilities, museum and exhibition space at the Malta Maritime Museum will increase to 1,629 sq.m. from the current 1,086 sq.m. This €2,015,529 project is being partly financed by the peoples of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants. Cultural heritage has featured regularly as a priority under all programming periods for EEA and Norway financial mechanisms.

In the early 1990s, major works were undertaken to restore and adapt part of the Old Naval Bakery to serve as the Malta Maritime Museum. To date, only a relatively small percentage of the entire building is serving as a museum.In recent years, Heritage Malta commenced an ambitious restoration programme to restore the external fabric of this historical structure. The agency has completed the restoration of one turret, the front and side façades, and is in the process of finalising the restoration of the back façade, and all the apertures through national funds. The new project will...