Maritime Museum of Montenegro
Seafaring collections of the Bay of Kotor, shown in the baroque Grgurina Palace inside the old town.
The Maritime Museum of Montenegro grew out of a collection assembled from about 1880 by the Bokeljska mornarica, the ancient seafarers' fraternity of the Bay of Kotor. It became a public museum in 1938 and was reorganised after the Second World War, reopening in its present form in 1952. The displays follow the maritime history of Boka Kotorska, from mediaeval shipping and the long Venetian period through the age of sail to steam navigation, naval schooling and the sailors' revolt of 1918.
The museum occupies the Grgurina Palace, an eighteenth-century baroque town house on Trg Bokeljske mornarice in Kotor's walled old town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Damaged in the Second World War, the palace was restored and adapted for museum use between 1949 and 1952. Alongside ship models, navigation instruments, charts, weapons and portraits of captains, the rooms are furnished as period salons from Prčanj and Risan, and the collection includes ethnographic material, rare books and marine paintings.
Highlights
- Housed in the eighteenth-century baroque Grgurina Palace
- Collection begun by the Bokeljska mornarica seafarers' fraternity
- Ship models, charts, navigation instruments and captains' portraits
- Period salons furnished with pieces from Prčanj and Risan
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