The Maritime Quarter

The Maritime Quarter, a live marine center with boat building activities, a smithy, and other handicrafts, and a marina for traditional ships and wooden boats, is located in Mariehamn's eastern harbor.

During the last century, building wooden boats was nearly a daily occurrence on the land. More than 300 wooden boats were built in Lanai from the middle of the 1800s to the early 1900s. The ships grew in size, and their journeys became longer and longer. Land peasants founded tiny shipping companies with shares, and this period in the history of land seafaring is known as peasant seafaring. The shipbuilding traditions are kept alive in the Maritime Quarter.

On this website, you can participate in a variety of exciting activities. The Ship and Boat Building Museum, as well as the newly constructed Museum of Historical Marine Engines, are also worth visiting. In the Beacon, a replica of the former beacon at the Kobba Klintar pilot station, there is an exhibition of vintage work boats. Take a stroll through the classic style land boat harbor, which features wooden boats, sheds, and boathouses. A Seafarers' chapel is built the farthest out on the breakwater. The Maritime Quarter is home to the galley Albanus, the schooner Linden, and the sailing well bore Jehu, as well as thirty other wooden ships of various types.

In the Maritime Quarter, there are five workshops from which you can buy Åland handicrafts of the highest quality. This village really contains a lot of special things, making your trip fascinating. So, visit this place, which is considered one of the most beautiful historical sites in the Åland Islands, to emerge and see a piece of the island's old history

Location: Mariehamn, Åland Islands