When it comes to choosing where to go and what to see in Greece, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. As far as museums go, you’re spoilt for choice, but, and let’s be honest here, not all museums are created equal. In the following list, we’ve cobbled together a selection of 12 of the country’s top archaeological, Byzantine and modern museums, one for each month of the year, to get you inspired for your next trip to Greece.
All of these museums, located in different regions of the mainland and islands, showcase emblematic exhibits and artifacts that run the full gambit of Greece’s prehistory and history, as well as rare finds and lesser-known masterpieces. As ever, this list is in no particular order, but we hope it will get you started. The Museum of Prehistoric Thera (Santorini) is an extension to the world-famous archaeological site of Akrotiri, the “Pompeii of the Aegean.
” Inaugurated in the year 2000, this modern Museum houses spectacular finds from the Bronze Age settlement, which was buried under layers of ash following a powerful volcanic eruption in the late 17th century BC, including well-preserved wall frescoes and portable objects (marble figurines, pottery, bronze implements, and so on). The Museum also hosts objects dating as far back as the 5th millennium BC, charting the course of cultural development in the Aegean region from the Neolithic (New Stone Age) to Akrotiri’s seismic destruction. The permanent exhibition also showcases the excavation of.
