Heritage Malta is offering a special discounted admission price for visitors to the Citadel museums, this coming Saturday, the 15th of August, a Public Holiday for the feast of Santa Marija

Visitors will be able to gain admission to the Gozo Museum of Archaeology, the Old Prison, the Gozo Nature Museum and the Folklore Museum, for just €2.

A 10% discount will also be offered on Heritage Malta Membership.

The four museums will be open from 9.00am till 5.00pm (last admission at 4.30pm).

The Gozo Museum of Archaeology is located within the walls of the Citadel just behind the old gate.

It is housed in a seventeenth century town house known as ‘Casa Bondi’.

The museum illustrates chronologically the cultural history of the Island of Gozo from prehistoric times to the early modern period.

The Folklore Museum houses a wide range of exhibits depicting the domestic, rural and traditional ways of life in the agrarian economy of the Maltese Islands in centuries past.

The Museum is located in the apt setting of late medieval houses in Bernardo de Opuo Street in the Citadel. The houses were probably built around the beginning of the 16th century.

The Folklore Museum is a testimony to the many skills, crafts and traditions that have shaped everyday life on the islands.

The Old Prison was in use from the mid-16th century until the beginning of the 20th century.

The complex is divided into two sections: the entrance hall, which served as a common cell in the 19th century and a free-standing block with six individual cells.

The walls of the cells and corridors in the Old Prison are covered with graffiti. The representations include ships, stars, hand profiles, and names, and date from different periods.

The Gozo Nature Museum is situated behind the Courts of Justice in the Citadel in Victoria, Gozo and focuses mainly on Gozo’s natural resources and their use by the island’s inhabitants. The museum is housed within a cluster of three interconnected domestic buildings, dating back to the 1600s. In later years, this building was used as an inn for visitors. During World War II it served as a shelter for families who sought refuge during aerial bombings.

The Museum’s collection is distributed on two floors: the ground floor comprises the geology, minerals, human and animal evolution and marine life sections. The geology display highlights the geology of the island of Gozo and includes marine organisms deposited on the sea floor between 35 and 5 million years ago and fragments of fossil bones from the Maltese Islands.

The majority of the specimens in the mineral collection come from the generous donation of Dr Lewis Mizzi, a Gozitan lawyer and mineralogist of great repute.

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