ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
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Archaeological museum with impressive frescoes and sculptures from the Hellenistic period.
This museum (Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θήρας/Arachaiologiko Mousio Thiras) closed in 2022 to be refurbished to house its new centerpiece: the Thera kouros. This 7th century B.C. statue was discovered in 2000 in the necropolis of the ancient city of Thera, in the south-east of the island, near Prerissa. Measuring 2.48 m in height, it depicts the bust of a young man (having lost his right arm and the tip of his nose) and a column carved from the same block of Naxos marble. It is one of the oldest large statues in ancient Greece. The renovated museum is also set to showcase the ancient collections, mainly made up of objects from the ancient Spartan city of Thera: white marble Cycladic figurines (3rd millennium BC), Akrotiri vases (20th-17th centuries BC), a large red pithos decorated with a swan and chariots pulled by winged horses (c. 675 BC), an amphora with a white marble motif (3rd millennium BC) and a large red pithos decorated with a swan and chariots pulled by winged horses (c. 675 BC)C.), an amphora with geometric motifs (7th century B.C.), fragments of kouroi (7th-6th centuries B.C.), a series of black-figure ceramics including a crater with four galleys on its inner neck (6th century B.C.), a 480 kg volcanic stone bearing the inscription "Eumastas raised it" (6th century B.C.), steles and sculptures from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, etc. The dusty museography of this 1960 building could do with a facelift. Let's just hope that explanations in French will be available.
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