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MUSEUMS

Marine Founding's Museum

This is a private museum, a work of the Valsamidi brothers born and living in Kalymnos. With a love of the sea and a willingness to share the joys and wealth with the people, they built this museum with a great deal of effort and zeal. They worked as architects, builders, collectors, decorators without ever stopping their favourite activity, diving.

The result is impressive. The findings come from thousands of dives in the seas around the world. There is a large variety of fish, cochlea, shellfish, starfish, corals, shark, chelonoeidi and, of course, all kind of sponges. Part of the museum is devoted to the profession of sponge diving and includes all the tools and diving suits used by divers from 1872 until today.

Archaeological Museum

The Archaeological Museum of Kalymnos is in the district of Agia Triada in Pothia. The Archaeological Museum of Kalymnos discloses the historical and cultural progress of the place from the prehistoric to the Metavyzantinous times through the presentation of a large number of bronze and marble sculptures, clay pots, figurines, tools, coins, devotional objects, handmade objects and weapons. Open from Tuesday until Sunday 08:30 - 15:00. On Mondays it is closed.

Naval Museum

At the Naval Museum of Kalymnos, founded in 1994, we can learn about the naval tradition of the island, history and methods of sponge diving and view many objects from ancient ship wrecks. In four rooms of the museum there are many objects dealing with the profession of sponge diving.

It is located on the coastline of Pothias in the building of the old Vouvaleioy Technical School, next to City Hall and operates: Daily: 7:00-13:30 - Saturday and Sunday 10.00-12:30