Symi keeps its museums in Chorio, the old upper town above the harbour of Gialos. The Archaeological Museum of Symi occupies an old mansion and shows finds from the island and nearby. Its collection runs from antiquity through the age of the Knights. A folklore section and a preserved captain’s mansion display the traditional life … Read more
The Archaeological Museum of Syros ranks among the oldest museums in Greece, founded in the late nineteenth century in the port capital of Ermoupoli. Its collection centres on the Early Cycladic culture that grew across the islands in the third millennium BC. Marble figurines, engraved ‘frying-pan’ vessels, obsidian blades, and metal tools fill its display … Read more
Thessaloniki carries three thousand years of layered history, and its museums hold the proof in gold, mosaic, photograph, and film. The Archaeological Museum guards the Derveni Krater and the gold of the Macedonian kings, the Museum of Byzantine Culture reads the city’s long medieval prime, and the White Tower turns its own Ottoman shell into … Read more
The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki keeps the finds of Macedonia under one roof, from prehistory through the Hellenistic kingdom to the Roman city. The bronze Derveni Krater crowns the galleries, and the charred Derveni Papyrus reads as the oldest known manuscript in Europe. Gold wreaths, grave goods, sculpture, and mosaics fill the rooms around them, … Read more
The Mycenae Archaeological Museum stands on the slope of the citadel, a short walk from the Lion Gate, gathering the finds pulled from the site and its cemeteries under one roof. Pottery, painted plaster, figurines, jewellery, bronze weapons and clay tablets fill its cases, arranged to explain how a Bronze Age capital lived, worshipped and … Read more