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Through the many exhibits of the permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia the visitor is introduced to the history of the great Pan-Hellenic sanctuary from the Early Bronze Age to the sixth-seventh centuries AD. The sculpted decoration (metopes and pediments) of the temple of Zeus, the most important example of the Severe Style […]

The Museum was founded in 1969 by the Archaeological Service, under the responsibility of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Olympia. Museum collections include: Vessels and miniatures of the Middle Helladic era, found in the sites of Peristeria, Routsi, Volimidia, Tragana, etc., movable findings from the Palace of Nestor, in Englianos.   Some of the most […]

The Museum was built on the western part of Mavromati village, on land granted to the Archaeological Society. The Museum has a significant collection of sculptures. Among them the Doryforos of Polykleitos, Artemis Laphria, Hermes of the Andros-Farnese type, as well as fragments of sculptures by the Messenian Damophon. The Artemis Lafria was discovered earlier, […]

The museum building is located at the heart of the historic center of Kalamata, where the Municipal Market of the city used to be, a place that was bustling with merchants and shoppers every day. Following the disastrous earthquake in 1986, the Market building was demolished, as it had been severely damaged. The building which […]

Museum of the Ancient Greek Technology The present exhibition of Ancient Greek technology includes approximately 200 operating models of Ancient Greek inventions. The Ancient Greek technological marvel from the robot – servant of Philon to the cinema of Heron and from the automatic clock of Ktesibios to the analog computer of Antikythera cover the period […]