Delos Museum

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Delos (Prefecture of Kiklades)

Telephone: +30 22890 22259

Fax: +30 22890 23413

Email: efakyk@culture.gr

Open
Summer:
Archaeological Site of Delos: (1th of April till 31st of Αυgust 2016) 08:00-20:00, Monday to Sunday

(September) 8:00-20:00
Archaeological Museum of Delos:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday: 08:00-19:00 and
Saturday, Monday: 08:00-15:00

The Archaeological Museum of Delos (Greek: Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Δήλου) is a museum on the island of Delos, near Mykonos in the South Aegean, Greece. It is noted for its extensive collection of statues unearthed in the surrounding area of the ancient site, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Although the museum has a considerable collection, it does not contain all of the items found in Delos: a large quantity are on display in Athens at the National Archaeological Museum.

In 1872, the French School at Athens began excavating on Delos, in a project on a massive scale, which is still ongoing today.

As the collection accumulated, the museum was built on-site in 1904 by the Archaeological Society of Athens to accommodate the archaeological discoveries. Its original five rooms went underwent expansion in 1931 and then again in 1972 to nine rooms.

Display

The museum's notable collection of funerary statues and grave stelae ranging from the 7th to the 1st century BC form the bulk of the collection. Its ancient pottery collection dates from the 25th to the 1st century BC, while the clay figurines, jewellery and mosaics conserved in the museum date back to the 2nd-1st centuries BC. Six rooms contain the statues and reliefs found in Delos;,two rooms contain the pottery and another room contains items used in everyday life in ancient Greece.

Alabastron, Artemis with swans, find from Heraion. Corinthian production, 620-600 BC.

Of major note is an ivory plaque which dates to 1400-1200 BC that depicts a Mycenaean soldier clad with a helmet made from wild boar teeth with defensive shield and spear. It was discovered at Artemision along with other gold, ivory and bronze items. The museum has a 5th-century marble statue of Boreas which portrays the infamous kidnapping of the Athenian princess Oreitheia and marble statues of Dioskourides and his wife Kleopatra, who lived on Delos island. The statues, which were unearthed at their former residence, date from 138 BC, according to the inscription on the base, which indicates they were erected by Cleopatra in order to honour her husband, who dedicated two silver tripods to the temple of Apollo.

Kore with peplos, Parian work, 580 BC. Found in the Temple of Apollo at Delos.

The marble statue of Apollo after a Praxitelean model depicts the god inclining on a tree and striding on a bundle of Gallic shields and is believed to date back to the 2nd century BC. A bearded bronze mask of Dionysos that depicts the god wearing a crown and an ivy garland was discovered at the Market of the Competaliasts and is believed to date to the same period as the Apollo.

Mosaic depicting King Lycurgus of Thrace killing Ambrosia (2nd BC)

The Delos Archaeological Museum also contains the torso of a kouros of the 6th century BC, and an inscribed triangular base of another kouros statue found in the Sanctuary of Apollo dated to the 7th century BC; it is decorated with the head of a ram on one corner and gorgon's heads on the other two. The inscription engraved on one side says: "Euthycartides the Naxian made me and dedicated me".

Silenus, the tutor of Dionysos

There is a set of large lion statues which are originals; of those reproduced outside on the Delos site. There is a Corinthian alabastron, which is a small, perfumed oil container with an artistic depiction of Potnia Theron, the lady of the beasts and protectress of hunting, among two swans. It was discovered in the Heraion along with similar Corinthian vases dating to the end of the 7th century BC. The Delos Archaeological Museum also has an archaic statue of a woman, found in the Sanctuary of Apollo dated to 580 BC. The statue represents a young woman standing, dressed in a tight peplos decorated in front with an incised vertical double meander. There is also a valuable fresco taken from the exterior wall of a house in the Skardana Quarter, depicting Heracles, two boxers and a man playing a flute or trumpet. The inscription which says "Kalamodrya" is believed to refer to the prominent boxer of the 1st century BC.

From Mythological sibling Apollo and Artemis the new DELOS, will be designed as a symmetrical aspect value due to the equilateral mythic triangle of the DELTA: symbol of Delos.

The Cyclades and archeological Museum is also an allegory to the Mythology of Greece.

The Cyclopes also name the Giants, created the Delos archipelagos of Mykonos by throwing giant stone on the Island.

This granite stone and rocks are the true symbols of energy.

The geological composition of Delos is composed of those three energy minerals: the quartz, the mica, and the feldspar.

The equilateral triangle will be lined up with a North South axe, which will protect the entrance museum from the Melthem North East strong and cold wind

The Museum Architecture:

5000 Sqm of livable space with a maximum length of 100 meters that will be divided in three volumes.

The higher will have a height of 20 meters on which 3 to 5 meters will be under the ground level.

The ground level is very important because it is the reflexion of the existing ground of ancient Delos buried with time and destruction, as only 10 percent of the site has been yet discover.

The Museum design:

– One main Museum entrance.

– One exit.

– One Delivery entrance for antiques discovery of archeologists, with a local restaurant and a cafe, stores, and museum archeological staff archeologist, guard, and local staff members.

The main concept is to access and exit the Museum of Delos with three long concrete slabs bridges over a reservoir that will collect mostly rainy water during the winter and drainage in the ground.

The construction of the Museum will be built with a reinforce concrete vault as the location of the Museum is in a very high density seismic location as we are in the epic enter of the Cycladic Island. Museum discovery will have to be strongly protected.

The concrete vault ceiling will also protected the content of the Museum from heat and will be high enough to have a sense of a natural astrological vault so important in the Ancient Greece.

Mathematicians, astrologers, historians, philosophers will all agreed that the high volume is the important criteria of the Museum ceiling and vault.

The stone-Rock aspect and the architecture:

Based on an organically symbolic aspect of constructivism the epicenter of the Delos Museum will the spiral stair coming from the lower floor to the upper floor.

Gradually the steps will enlarge and the second floor will be accessible with a large ramp, to make it easier for tourist walking to the second floor.

Show case shops and window displays will distract the tourist.

The Architectural Materials:

The concrete vault will be covered with stone and local vegetal will eat up the structure and blend in the environment.

Large glass triangular opening will be located on the higher part of the vault to capture the light.

Light in Delos is supposed to be the strongest light of the World with Easter Island in the South Pacific.

Smaller size opening will be at eye level In order to be visible at any time from the inside of the Museum, looking at the site archeological contest.

The floor stone is in rough marble, and any existing foot print of local archeological remains will be kept at original location to preserve site harmony and archeological historical respect.

The Contemporary Design Elements:

In order to be an active contemporary museum all displays of monument recovered or replace in context will have the possibility of being digitalized and re-constructed in 3 D image and projected on a screen in order to reflect the reality of the past.

Light effect through out the Museum will be allowed through a light show.

The North Wing

-A restaurant.

-A coffee shop.

-A boutique , craftsman jewelery, bookstore store will be located on the north west side opening on a large patio overlooking the museum.

A ” mise en scene ” will act a representation of a reconstruction temple with architectural elements.

The East Wing

A mezzanine -amphitheater with 250 seats will be located in the east side.

The height of the theater will be 17 m high.

An interactive theater cine-panorama with projection on screen and the total vault to re-created a global site environment..

Performance , and historical film of Delos will be presented to group and audience.

The South Wing

The Apollo main atrium will unveiled a reconstructed huge site model in order to view the way it was

The Lion gallery facing the way it should be the inside of the museum will be located in front of the huge 3D model and to guard the Museum.

The South Entrance

A bridge will cross the tank reservoir to the Museum.

The triangular Delta door will welcome all the Tourist in front a very contemporary registration desk in glass with show cases of antique discoveries .

The main entrance with to footprint of old coins of the owners of the new sanctuary Apollo and Artemis, will be posted as medallion on the entrance pavement.

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Archaeological Museum of Thebes

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The need for a modern museum, worthy of the century-long history of Boeotia, led to the radical reconstruction and expansion of the old building, along with the full-scale renewal of its exhibits with objects coming mainly from recent excavations. The new Archaeological Museum of Thebes occupies an exhibition area of 1.000m2 and houses a multitude of artefacts, representing millennia of continuous human activity in Boeotia. The exhibition halls spread over two different levels, a choice dictated by the necessity to maintain the natural formation on the western slopes of the Kadmeia hill. 

The exhibition is arranged in a total of eighteen sections, eleven of which follow a basic chronological order from the Paleolithic period down to the end of the Ottoman rule ; in this way, they illustrate over time culture, everyday life, political and social evolution in Boeotia. The first Neolithic settlement cores were replaced by the technologically advanced settlements of the Bronze Age, the end of which witnessed the prosperity of the Mycenaean palatial centers of Thebes and Orchomenos. 

There followed a period of introversion and transformation (Protogeometric and Geometric times, , which led to the Archaic period and the creation of the Boeotian Confederacy. The Classical times marked the time of Theban domination, while the incessant military conflicts of the Hellenistic period impoverished the area, and gradually led to its marginalization (Roman period,). Prosperity returned during the Early Byzantine  and ?later on- the Middle Byzantine times , when Thebes was the designated capital of the "Theme of Hellas". During the Late Byzantine period the area passed under Western overlords, and formed part of the Duchy of Athens with its seat in Thebes. The journey into the past is concluded with the period of Ottoman rule in Boeotia ending with the foundation of the modern Greece State (1830)

Particular sections relate the history of the Archaeological Museum of Thebes and the early archaeological research in the region (lobby-reception), the myths associated with Boeotia and the cultural radiation of Boeotia from antiquity to modern times, with a special reference to the tragedies of the Theban mythological cycle . The gallery functions also as a short circuit for the visitor with limited time; furthermore, it leads to the covered archaeological site at the foundations of the Museum. The site preserves part of a dwelling from the third millennium, tombs of the 17th century BC, and the foundation of the Mycenaean wall of the Kadmeia (13th century BC). These monuments are partly visible in the exhibition hall of the Archaic perio. A showcase at the gallery accommodates a tactile and educational collection, including selected antiquities. Specialized programs for school groups take place at the area of educational programs. 

The visit is supplemented with a tour of the court where stone monuments are exhibited, such as funerary stelai, inscriptions, statue bases and funerary lions, and concluded by a visit to the medieval tower. The exhibition was designed to be accessible to disabled visitors and cover the aspirations of a versatile public with diverse demands. The visitor has the opportunity to navigate through time in the centuries-old history of Boeotia by way of singular finds, digital applications, reconstructions, but also by way of the monuments themselves, such as the tower and the structures at the foundations of the building.

History

A small collection of artefacts grew out of the very fruitful archaeological research in Boiotia at the beginning of the twentieth century. Antonios Keramopoullos founded the Archaeological Museum in 1905.

It was housed in a two-storey building, which was specially built on the projection at the north end of the historic acropolis of the Kadmeion. Apart from the sculptures of Thespiai and Ptoo and other surface finds from Boiotia, the museum displayed the finds from Keramopoullos' investigations in the palace of Kadmos, those from the Polyandrion at Thespiai, and many more from the Mycenaean and Classical cemeteries of Thebes, Tanagra and Ritsona, and from the prehistoric settlement of Eutresis. 

The old replete museum was replaced by a new one built on the same location. This new museum, the life's work of the then Ephor of Antiquities, I. Threpsiadis, was inaugurated in 1962 and housed many new finds, particularly those from the sanctuary of Artemis at Aulis. During the 1960's the collection was enriched by finds from the important excavations at the Kadmeion, by several representative objects from the German excavations at Kabireion and from the excavations at Thebes, Orchomenos and Tanagra, which were conducted by the Ninth Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. During this same decade the museum's garden was used for the first time to display antiquities, while the finds from the Mycenaean cemetery at Tanagra were exhibited in a special room which opened to the public in 1972. 

The spectacular archaeological discoveries in the centre of the Kadmeion on the Mycenaean and Classical acropolis of Thebes, the extensive cemeteries of Akraiphnion, the many rescue excavations and random finds in settlements, cemeteries and sanctuaries in Boiotia and in the Larymna region, increased the number of finds and made the construction of a new museum building at the west of the promontory necessary. At the same time a much-needed parking area was created east of Keramopoullos Square and the Medieval tower.

The permanent exhibition of the Thebes Archaeological Museum comprises characteristic finds from Greek and foreign excavations conducted in Boiotia, which span the long chronological period from the Paleolithic to the Post-byzantine periods. Some of its collections are especially interesting because they are unique; for example the Near Eastern Bronze Age cylinder seals from the Theban palace in the Kadmeion, the Mycenaean larnakes from Tanagra, the Archa?c kouroi from Ptoon and the characteristic black stone Classical funerary stelai. 

The exhibition, which occupies four large rooms, the lobby and the museum's garden, is organized by time period and by artefact type. Four new rooms, currently under construction, will house finds from recent excavations, while the Byzantine antiquities of Boiotia will be displayed separately.

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Archaeological Museum of Kos

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In the Archaeological Museum of Kos are found all the findings that came to light during the excavations that are carried out in the island by the beginning of century up to today, mainly from the archaeological site of Market and the Western archaeological site, as well as from individual monuments, as the Altar of Dionisos, the Odeon and the Roman Residence ( Casa Romana ). 

The display of sculptures that functions today in the Museum collects work tha is dated from Hellenistic until the Histeroromanic years and aims to present to a wider public the more important wok of sculptures from Kos Island.

The two-storey building in Eleutherias Square which houses the current archaeological Museum of Kos, is a monuments of Italian occupation era, built in 1935. On the ground floor, especially in the interior of the west, northwest, north, east room and the patio is mainly exposed the more important work of sculpture, as well as mosaics. In the lobby conspicuous the supernatural head of Hera and the sepulchral anaglyph with representation a lion.

In the western room are exposed statues of the Hellenistic era, most from which they were found in the archways of the Conservatoire: statue of an athlete, female figures bearing the famous gowns Koes, head of Alexander, male trunk, etc. In the north-western room is exposed the imposing statue of said Hippocrates, while in the walls is presented anaglyph with representation of symposium, excellent late archaic art, as well as sepulchral sculptures of late archaic and classic period. In the northern room are found statues of Dimitra, Kore and Athena that is emanated from rural holy in  the region Pyli. In the same room are exposed Hellenistic statues of Venus, Nymphs,

Fortune and an efedrismou complex. In the Eastern room are exposed statues of Roman period, between then a seated Hermes and Dimitra. In the atrium Roman statues Artemidos, Asclepiou, Health, as well as cluster Dionisos and Satyr surround mosaic flooring that depicts the arrival of Asclepiou in Kos Island.

One more mosaic from the Hellenistic era, with representation of marine bottom, adorns the northern wall of the cloister and emanates from the restored Roman Residence (Casa Romana). The first floor of building houses a large collection of pottery and other little findings of Kos but the entry for visitors in not still possible. The archaeological Museum of Kos belong in the competence of KB’ Conservancy Prehistoric and Classic Antiquities of the Ministry of Culture.

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Opening of two renovated halls of the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth

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The opening of two renovated halls of Ancient Corinth Archaeological Museum will solemnized Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 19:30, the Culture and Sport Minister. Aristides Baltas. The rooms are about the life and history of the city - state of Corinth, from the 10th century to 146 BC, when it was destroyed by Roman troops.

The Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth is located in the heart of the eponymous archaeological site and operates under the responsibility of Antiquities, Corinth. It is one of the historical museums of Greek region, with high traffic, which reached 160,000 visitors in 2015.

The museum was built in 1931-1932 by architect W. Stuart-Thompson - by the American School of Classical Spoudon- initiative in order to house the finds from the excavations of ancient Corinth. In 1950 followed the expansion to the East, which was completed in 1953.

The original report included four halls: Hall of Prehistoric Antiquities Classical Antiquities Hall of Asklepios Hall and Roman Antiquities Hall.
In 2001 he settled in Roman Antiquities Hall one intercalary exhibition section entitled "Down to earth birthday", presenting 274 repatriated artifacts stolen from the museum in 1990 and identified in US Florida ten years later.

In 2007, under a project financed by the CSF, were shaping projects and infrastructure improvements and the Museum of Image and out and the re-opening of the Hall of Prehistoric Antiquities and the Chamber of Asklepios.
In 2012, the then LZ Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities undertook the initiative to modernize the infrastructure and the exhibition program of the museum. In this context we redesigned the visitor traffic and implemented the re-opening of the South (formerly Classical) Hall and the exhibition halls a new room was added, the East, which until then functioned as a warehouse.

In the East Hall report sets out objects from the villages and temples of ancient Corinth, including the funerary constitution both of marble Kouros their sarcophagi from the necropolis of ancient Tenea, the "Sarcophagus of Chiliomodi" with painted capping plate and "Leo crow ', a unique funerary monument rescued from the hands of antiquities.

In South Hall exhibition exposed objects from the city, shrines and cemeteries of ancient Corinth, representing all aspects of public and private life of the Corinthians. Among them, the marble tombstone "Sphinx of Aetopetra" architectural Temple of Apollo, and many objects related to the daily life of ancient Corinth, but the city's overseas expansion in the western Mediterranean.

The exhibition is accompanied by rich visual material and media that enhance the museum experience for visitors.

The Act "restated ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF ANCIENT CORINTH" was incorporated in 2013 under Priority Axis 03 "Improving the business environment" of the Operational Programme "Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship" and financed by the European Regional Development Fund (NSRF 2007-2013), with the amount of 1,010 .000 €.

The project "DESIGN WELDING, STRUCTURAL EARTHQUAKE REHABILITATION AND PROTECTION OF TWO barbers FROM Klenia KORINTHIAS" funded by the Peloponnese region in the amount of 36.900 € and was implemented by the Archaeological Service Corinthia in collaboration with specialized scientists, conservators and sculptors.