Historical Archive – Museum of Hydra (IAMY)

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 masts, 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 The exhibition space of the IAMY also exhibits representative samples of historical documents from the 18th-19th centuries from the approximately 18,000 primary archival documents that belong to its collection, as well as an impressive photographic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.