ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF MYKONOS
The Archaeological Museum of Mykonos was built in 1902, in order to house the finds from the “Purification Pit” of 426/5 B.C., which was discovered in 1898 on the islet of Rheneia, by D. Stavropoulos. It was designed by Alexandros Lykakis and paid for by the Ministry of Education and the Archaeological Society of Athens, while the land was donated by the Municipality of Mykonos.
The exhibition of the museum includes a large number of vases, ranging from the prehistoric to the late Hellenistic period (25th-1st century B.C.), grave statues, stelae and funerary urns from Rheneia, and very few finds from Mykonos. The museum contains the following collections :
- Funerary statues and grave stelae dating from the 2nd/1st century B.C.
- Pottery dating from the 25th to the 1st century B.C.
- Clay figurines dated to the 2nd/1st century B.C.
- Jewelry and small objects of the 2nd/1st century B.C.
A historic museum you should definitely visit.
