Slovenian ships at the exhibition in Crete

The exhibition, which has already toured Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro a few times and has now been adapted for Crete, consists of twelve illuminated posters designed by Matjaž Učakar, with texts in Greek, Italian and English, a display case with publications published in the twelve years of the project, stamps issued by the Slovenian Post Office within the Slovenian Ships series, and video material.

A display of the six selected Splošna plovba’s ships awaits numerous museum guests in the picturesque town of Chania, close to an exceptional replica of an ancient Minoan ship, built in this old museum shipyard and which sailed to and docked in Piraeus in 2004, at the opening of the Olympic Games.

At the exhibition opening on Wednesday, 10 June 2026, the audience was addressed, in addition to the author Duška Žitko, by the Director of the Maritime Museum of Crete Manolis Petrakis, the Deputy Mayor of Chania Ioannis Gianakakis, the member of the board for culture of the Municipality of Chania Manolis Fragakis, the Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of Slovenia in Athens Jasna Goličič Bakovnik, and Franco Juri, the former Director of the Maritime Museum Piran. 

The cooperation between the two museums was incited, inter alia, by the initiative and proposal of the Piran Museum to invite and accept the Cretan Museum in the AMMM (Association of Mediterranean Maritime Museums), following the visit by the Head of the Greek Museum, Commodore Petrakis, to Piran. This year, the AMMM Forum will take placed in Chania from 22 to 25 October. The exhibition will be on display in the Cretan Museum till the end of this international museum meeting.