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Historical Archive – Museum, Hydra Island
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The Historical Archive – Museum of Hydra (IAMY) receives a large number of Greek and foreign visitors daily , which exhibits important 19th-century paintings and numerous objects-relics from the Battle of 1821, Hydra costumes of the period, maps, navigational instruments, cannons, wooden carved ship prows and mastheads, construction models and lithographs of ships from the Battle, etc. The exhibition space of the IAMY also exhibits representative samples of historical documents from the 18th-19th centuries from the approximately 18,000 primary archival documents that belong to its collection, as well as an impressive photographic archive of the island with its great naval tradition and history, which still moves visitors today.

A regional service of the General State Archives (GAK) , the Historical Archive-Museum of Hydra was founded in 1918 (Government Gazette of April 1918, Law 1289) and was housed in a building constructed at the expense of the Hydra shipowner and benefactor Gikas N. Koulouras. In 1972, for construction reasons, the old building was demolished and in its place the new, large building was built, which was officially inaugurated in July 1996 and since then has been operating on a daily basis (including weekends) for researchers and its large audience of Greek and foreign visitors.

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Purpose of the File department is the detection, the consentration, the sorting, the filling and the publishing of all the files (history, civilation, folklore), that exist in Hydra. In this Department, the file material can come from many sources. Some of them are the Public Services of Hydra and from individuals. These files are important source of historic research for the place of Hydra and promote the important role that Hydra played during the 18th - 19th Century. A big part of the file material have to do with the file of the Municipality of Hydra (1708 - 1865). There are 18.000 documents, manuscripts, codes and books which write down the rebellious and after-rebellious times of The Hellenic History. Also there are educational files, administative files, files from the church, from the middle of the 19th Century to our days. The Museum department has got two levels: The ground floor, in which are displayed exhibits from the Balcan and first and second World Wars and in the antechamber there are traditional costumes from Hydra and figureheads from battleships. Also there is a wonderful historical picture gallery with arts from many great greek and foreigh artists. To the walls of the staircase, the visitor can see portraits of the heroes of the greek rebellion, made from known artists, like Panagiotis Tetsis and Dimosthenis Kokkinidis. There are also exhibits of works of art from 18th and 19th Century, guns from the war, nautical maps and the map of Riga Feraios. In this place is also been kept safe the silver urn with the stuff heart of the Admiral Andreas Miaoulis. The Library is located at the groundflor of the Museum. It includes 4.000 valuable books, mostly from the 18th Century and everyday new books, newsparers and magazines are keep comming.
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  • Closed Now
    UTC+009:00 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Monday
    09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Tuesday
    09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Wednesday
    09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Thursday
    09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Friday
    09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Saturday
    09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Sunday
    09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
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