The Museum is located at the seaside village of Vlichada. It is a private museum, where exhibits related to sponge fishery are displayed, also a large variety of plants and animals from the marine kingdom and numerous amphorae and other objects from old shipwrecks are presented. The findings deriving from various sea dives include almost everything one can encounter in the deep blue. Part of the museum is dedicated to the sponge fishery profession and includes all of the diving equipment used by divers since 1872 until today.


It is located on the southern edge of the Monastery of All Saints, in Vothini. It is a private Folk Museum of Mrs. Skilla Chalkidiou Faneromeni with many folklore objects and chattels of old households. Visitors get the opportunity to learn about the form and organization of everyday life which took place in a traditional urban house of the late 19th and the early 20th century. Mrs Faneromeni Skylla who is a daughter of a sponge fisherman loved this place and wanted provide every visitor with pictures of “yesterday” and to talk about “her Kalymnos”.
At the Municipal Navy Museum the visitors can learn about the maritime tradition of the island and the history and methods of sponge fishery. Also there are objects from ancient ship wrecks. The Laografiko Museum (Folklore Museum) operates in the same building, exhibiting cultural samples of Kalymnos folklore. The Municipal Navy Museum of Kalymnos actually is the only museum of sponge fishery in Greece. In the museum visitors can see the progress and development of the diving methods and also the tools that were used for sponge fishery
The Archaeological Museum of Kalymnos is located in Agia Triada in Pothia. In the Archaeological Museum of Kalymnos the historical and cultural evolution of Kalymnos by the prehistoric to the post-Byzantine times is unfolded, through a presentation of a large number of bronze and marble sculptures, pottery, figurines, tools, coins, statuettes, devotional objects, miniatures and weapons.