Entrance fees to the Maritime Museum and Inquisitor’s Place will be reduced on Monday between 6 and 11 p.m. during the feast of St Lawrence.

The entrance fee during this time will be €2 for each museum while children under 12 years will enter free.

The Maritime Museum has thousands of artifacts connected with seafaring that help one to understand Malta’s maritime history and lore within a Mediterranean context and also illustrate the global nature of seafaring and its impact on society.

The museum is housed in the former British Naval Bakery at Vittoriosa. The building, designed by British architect William Scamp, was erected between 1842 and 1845 on the site of the old covered slipway of the Knights of St John.

The bakery was the hub of the Victualing Yard and supplied the Royal Navy with its daily requirements of bread and biscuit.

After World War II, it was converted into offices and stores and as the headquarters of the Admiralty Constabulary. The building remained part of the naval establishment up to the closure of the British base in 1979.

The Inquisitor’s Palace, sited in the heart of Vittoriosa, is one of the very few surviving examples of a style of palace that would have been found all over Europe and South America in the early modern period.

Mgr Pietro Dusina arrived in Malta in 1574 as the first general inquisitor and apostolic delegate of the Maltese Islands. The Grand Master offered him the unused palace as an official residence. Almost all successive inquisitors sought to transform the palace into a decent mansion. They all shared the same cultural values of clerical baroque Roman society, and by the mid-18th century they had managed successfully to transform the building into a typical Roman palace.