PATRAS ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
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Modern museum with futuristic spherical titanium auditorium. Houses the largest collection of Roman mosaics in Greece.
This museum (Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Πάτρας/Archaiologiko Mousio Patras) is housed in a modern 2009 building distinguished by its spherical titanium auditorium. It brings together 1,300 objects from the Paleolithic to the Roman period, mainly from Patras. This is the largest collection of Roman mosaics in Greece. Room 1 ("Private Life") features Mycenaean jewels and 14 mosaics that adorned the floors of villas: Calydon's boar hunt (3rd century), with Meleager delivering the coup de grâce, Triton riding a seahorse (3rd century), Aphrodite admiring herself in a mirror (2nd century)... New mosaics await you in Room 2 ("Public Life"). They come from large Roman public buildings in Patras: a representation of the river god Nile (3rd century) uncovered in a temple of the Greco-Egyptian god Serapis, a portrait of the Cyclops Polyphemus (2nd century) discovered in the courtyard of the odeon, a sporting and artistic competition (late 2nd century)... In the same room are Mycenaean weapons and statues, including two Roman copies of works by great Greek masters: a satyr by Praxiteles and the Athena Parthenos by Phidias, which took pride of place in the Parthenon in Athens. Room 3 ("Necropolises") features funerary objects from the cemeteries of Patras: feminine ornaments and jewelry, urns, vases, a reconstruction of an imposing Roman funerary monument, etc. Finally, Room 4 houses the temporary exhibitions.
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