Great Siege of Malta

2009 School Programmes

The Great Siege Events Museum Annual School Excursion Programme.

Partner: Agenda Bookshop.

Endorsed by the Projects and Initiatives Section of the Directorate for Educational Services.

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PRESS RELEASE

On Friday 6th November 2009, at noon, the Honourable Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism, Dr M. De Marco, inaugurated the renewed and updated Great Siege Events Museum at the Cafe Premier Complex, Valletta.

The former attraction is now in a continuous process of upgrading and has evolved into the Great Siege Events Museum. Its creative director, Dane Munro, a local historian and Latinist, was also responsible for writing the script and dialogues for the new Great Siege presentation. More than just a narrative on the Great Siege, the presentation is concerned with the plight of the Maltese population during the Great Siege of 1565. Examples are given of how the women filled the vacant positions left by the men who had to fight and how the children survived. Ottoman snipers caused a lot of casualties but this did not stop the Maltese women and children to fill the gaps in the bastion walls after every assault, often with the debris of their own homes.

In view of the curriculum of schools, the new Great Siege presentation fits in much better than the previous presentation; Also the duration is much shorter than before, about 30 minutes compared to the 45 minutes of the past. The tourism sector, both local and foreign, have deemed the new Great Siege Events Museum a definitively good product and an asset to the historic, touristic competitiveness of Malta.