A presentation of designs for a new state-of-the-art museum for underwater antiquities at the port of Piraeus took place this week at the site where the new museum will be transformed from a current industrial site.
The presentation took place aboard a Liberty-class freighter now also serving as a floating museum.
The current site served as a grain storage facility complete with silo, constructed in 1936, itself an example of industrial design.
The new facility is expected to house nearly 2,000 antiquities and artifacts found at the bottom of seas around Greece. Most of the exhibits are currently in storage, the product of nearly 40 years of archaeological research.
Total exhibition space will be 6,500 square meters within the 13,500 sq. meter building.
Another highly-anticipated facet of the new museum is the opportunity to finally salvage and preserve several ancient, medieval and more contemporary shipwrecks still languishing at the bottom of the sea.
