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Simi Nautical Museum: The Nautical Museum of Simi Greece, Dodecanese |
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The Nautical Museum of Simi Greece, Dodecanese: The Naval Museum of Simi is located in Gialos, just 2 km from Simi Town. The museum was established in 1983 and in 1990 it was housed in an elegant Neoclassical house, where the central shipyards of Simi were housed in the past.
The Naval Museum of Simi hosts old maps, ship models, diver suits, nautical tools and other exhibits that depict the long marine and sponge-fishing tradition of the island. In fact, it has a special section dedicated to sponge diving with exhibits including diving suits, diving machines for oxygen production, a collection of sponges, diving stones and others. The museum also hosts paintings and wooden-carved sailboats of the craftsman Antonis Polias. |
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