ENTRANCE HALL

In the entrance hall of the Museum there are six bronze panels in relief showing the most important events and the most distinguished personalities from the rich past of the Bay of Kotor:

• Blockade of the town of Kotor by the pirate Hairudin Barbarosain 1539.

• Battle of Lepanto in 1571.

• Disastrous earthquake in Kotor in 1667.

• Old Shipyard from the 14lh century.

• Distinguished personalities from the maritime past.

• Captain Ivo Visin with his brigantine "Splendido", the first South Slav to circumnavigate the world, from 1852 to 1859.

• Triera, Greek war-ship

• Liburna, Illyrian ship from our coasts

• The Galley "St. Tryphon", participated in the battle of Lepanto, in 1571

• Karaka

• Galeon

• Tartantela from 17th and 18th centuries

• The staircase with old geographic maps, plans and vedutas of Montenegrin coastal towns, leads to collections on the first floor, the historical-ethnographic section of the Museum.

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