Archaeological Museum of Mykonos

Archaeological Museum of Mykonos

Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Μυκόνου
Museum building
Location within Greece South Aegean
Location	Mykonos, Greece
Type	Archaeological museum

The Archaeological Museum of Mykonos is a museum in Mykonos, Greece. It was built in 1902 to house the findings from the Putrefaction Pit of 425/426 BC, which was discovered in 1898 on the islet of Rheneia by D. Stavropoulos. It is one of the oldest museums in Greece and was designed by Alexandros Lykakis and funded by the Ministry of Education and the Archaeological Society of Athens. The land as donated by the Municipality of Mykonos. Its collections include exhibits dating from the Prehistoric to the Hellenistic period.

The original Neoclassical building underwent refurbishments and expansions in the 1930s and 1960s and the large eastern room was added in 1972. The museum contains artefacts from the neighbouring island Rhenia, including 9th- to 8th-century BC ceramic pottery from the Cyclades and 7th- to 6th-century BC works from other areas in the Aegean. Its most famous item is the large vase produced in Tinos, showing scenes from the fall of Troy.

Gallery

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  Early Cycladic pottery, 2800-2300 BC
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  Donkey vase, orientalizing style, probably from Sifnos, 700-650 BC
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  Large relief pithos, capture of Troy, 675-650 BC
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  Large relief pithos, capture of Troy, detail, 675-650 BC
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  Melian amphora, a girl with earring, 625-600 BC
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  Kouros as a handle, archaic small bronze, 560-540 BC
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  Pelike, sales of oil, Eucharidés painter, 520-500 BC
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  Amphora, Dionysus and menade, Shuvalov Painter, 450-425 BC
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  Heracles, Parakastri, Roman copy of a classical Attic work

External links

• Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism
• Review of Special Exhibition Archived 2017-09-15 at the Wayback Machine