Inside the Qaitbay Fort, you can find the Qaitbay Maritime Museum, which houses a collection of several interesting artifacts from the wars that it has witnessed. You can see relics from the Roman sea battles, the Napoleonic wars in which the fort was bombarded, as well as the British wars in which it was taken. There is also an interesting collection of sea diaphragms and sea creatures.
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