EU-funded museum has a budget of more than 93 million euros ($97 million) It will display more than 2,500 antiquities including many now in storage in Pylos, Rhodes and Paros. The museum, expected to open in the summer of 2026, will occupy part of the Piraeus docks, incorporating some existing elements from a 1930s storage silo. In antiquity Piraeus was the principal port of ancient Athens, from which its distinctive trireme ships would sail across the Mediterranean Sea. The city’s small archaeological museum currently has a bronze naval ram and marble eye from a 4th-century trireme on display. The new 26-square-metre building will display \”thousands of finds emerging for years from the depths of the Greek seas\”, culture minister Lina Mendoni said on a visit to the site on Monday. It is the largest cultural project currently underway in Greece and will highlight the country’s rich shipping history, she said. It will be the first of its kind in the Mediterranean region.
