Discover the Greek archaeological museums! National, regional or local museums, museums near archaeological sites, spread all over the country, from urban centers to remote villages and islands. All museums, regardless of scale, aim at making the Past familiar, attractive and fun. Find out what is necessary to organize your visit to each one of them and even more!
Archaeological Museums in numbers
Archaeological Museums
Visitοrs 2023 - 2024
Temporary exhibitions 2022 – 2023
Announcements
The new Diachronic Archaeological Museum of Tilos and the upgraded Archaeological Museums of Limnos, Samothraki, Dilos and Petralona cave have recently started their operation and the Museums of the Castles of Nafpaktos and Agia Mavra in Lefkada.
Exhibitions
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.
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 – November 30, 2026).
On the occasion of its 10th anniversary of operation, the Diachronic Museum of Larissa hosts a temporary exhibition about the amazing story of the antiquities’ rescue in Thessaly right after its incorporation into the new Greek state (Duration: December 21, 2025 – December 31, 2026)
The exhibition is presented at the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum as the third station in a journey that began at the Archaeological Museum of Messenia and moved on at the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles).214 antiquities from the Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia and 11 from the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum are in dialogue with selected works from the Museum’s permanent exhibition of the Mycenaean antiquities highlighting the evolution of the Mycenaean cultural identity of Messenia from the scattered centers of power to the establishment of a unified kingdom under the control of the Palace at Ano Englianos, traditionally associated with the Homeric Nestor (Duration: 26.05.2026 – 31.10.2026)
