ARGOS ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
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Reopening expected in 2025 with a new, carefully designed museography. Rich collection of ancient artifacts discovered in Argolid.
Closed for renovation in 2014, this museum (Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Άργους/Archaiologiko Mousio Argous) was due to reopen in 2023... but was still under construction in 2024. Let's remain optimistic! The three levels of the Villa Kallergi (1830) will soon feature a carefully designed museography. Highlights should include bronze warrior armour from the 8th century BC, Mycenaean vases from the 17th century BC, a crater (a vase used to flavour wine) from the 7th century BC, decorated with the scene where Ulysses blinds the Cyclops Polyphemus, and a fairly faithful Roman copy of Lysippus' superb statue of Heracles (4th century BC). Finds from the archaeological sites of Lerna, Argos and the Argos Heraion, as well as from the Neolithic settlement of Larissa Castle and the Mycenaean necropolis on Dirada Hill (2 km to the north), are also sure to feature. A new Epigraphic Museum was also due to open in 2023 within the same complex as the Byzantine Museum (in the eastern wing of the Kapodistria barracks). However, it will also remain under construction in 2024. It is designed to display an exceptional collection of 136 bronze and lead tablets dating from the 4th century BC. Discovered in 2001 during excavations in the center of Argos, they bear the inscriptions of the inventory of the "Treasure of Pallas": precious objects amassed in the sanctuary of an archaic divinity.
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