Welcome to the Maritime Quarter of Mariehamn

By the shore of Slemmern Bay, just north of the Eastern Harbour of Mariehamn, you will find the Maritime Quarter, a living marine centre with boat-building activity, a smithy and facilities for other traditional handicrafts, alongside a museum and a restaurant. There is a marina for small ships and traditional wooden boats, a 300-metre-long wharf and most service amenities.

Stroll around the traditional-style Åland boat harbour, with sheds and boat-houses. Furthest out on the breakwater there is a seafarers' chapel, often used for weddings and namegiving ceremonies.

Our museum contains exhibitions of ship and boat building in former and present time plus an exhibition of farm-boats (storbåtar). There is also a museum shop.
There is an exhibition of historical work-boats in the newbuilt Beacon, a copy of the former beacon at the Kobba Klintar pilot station.

A newbuilt museum with an exhibition of old hot-bulb engines and other historical marine engines will open in the summer 2012.

A new restaurant Pub Niska will open in the Maritime Quarter in April 2012 offering Åland style pizzas and tasty soups. You can also enjoy a cup of coffee.

The galleass Albanus, the schooner Linden and the sailing well-boat Jehu were built in the Maritime Quarter together with some thirty other wooden craft of various kinds. Many traditonal sailingvessels are based in the Maritime Quarter, among them the schooner Nordboen, the yacht Karolina and the brixhamtrawler Tibnor.
In the summer (2012) you can follow the building of a traditional Åland rowing boat.