Greek Archaeological Museums

The new Diachronic Archaeological Museum of Tilos and the upgraded Archaeological Museums of Samothraki, Dilos and Petralona cave have recently started their operation and the Museums of the Castles of Nafpaktos and Agia Mavra in Lefkada.

The Archaeological Museum of Piraeus hosts from 23 September 2022 a temporary exhibition with some of the most important finds from the rescue excavation at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center at the Faliron Delta. The exhibits emphasize the significance of an extended in place and time seaside cemetery, providing an insight of the Athenian society mainly during archaic times, as a reflection of the city’s pulsing life with notions that led to political developments and finally to Democracy.

Important new findings from cemeteries and individual burials of ancient Melians are presented to the public from the first time in the Archaeological Museum of Milos from the 1st July 2022.

On the occasion of the recent finds that were discovered in the Hellenistic City of Petra in Amyntaio, the Archaeological Museum of Florina hosts from 5 February 2024 a temporary exhibition that presents the daily life and the various activities of the people of the Hellenistic period in the area.

The new temporary exhibition presented at the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion illuminates the fascinating history of the founding and development of the poleis of Crete during the Archaic period (7th - 5th century BC) that emerged as centers of culture and power, some 500 years after the end of the glorious Minoan world. The title of the exhibition ‘EKATOMPOLIS’ draws its inspiration from the reference to Crete as the ‘island of a hundred cities’ in Homer’s Iliad. Duration: December 2024 - August 2025

296 artifacts ranging from the Paleolithic era to modern times, 30 caves, rock shelters, and chasms of archaeological interest in Northern Greece, and two museum halls transformed into a labyrinthine cave comprise the new temporary exhibition that is co-organised by the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, where it is being presented from 15 May till 31 December 2025, and the Ephorate of Paleoanthropology and Speleology.

The fully renovated Archaeological Museum of Thira reopens with the temporary exhibition "Cycladic Women: Unknown Stories of Women of the Cyclades", which is organized by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades and the Museum of Cycladic Art. The exhibition presents history of the women of the Cyclades, from antiquity to the 19th century and brings together 180 unique masterpieces from almost all the islands of the Cyclades. It aims to examine the roles of women and their positions in insular societies, through smaller or larger “untold” stories that are told by the women themselves, either through their words or through their material remains, though almost always through the eyes of the men of their time (Duration: June 21, 2025 – October 31, 2025).