MUSEUM OF PREHISTORIC THERA

The Museum of Prehistoric Thera, located in the island’s capital Fira, is not an ordinary provincial museum.  Its special contents,

masterpieces of art from the prehistoric Aegean , such as the famous wall-paintings and the unique gold ibex figurine, place it on a par with the Acropolis Museum of Classical Greece (Parthenon sculptures) and the Vergina Museum of Northern Greece.

 

ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

The archaeological Museum located in Fira, the islands capital, houses finds representing the islands long history.  The Museum contains collections of sculpture and inscriptions (ranging from the Archaic to the Roman period), vases and clay figurines (dating from the Geometric to the Hellenistic periods).

PETROS M. NOMIKOS CONFERENCE CENTRE

Three-dimensional life-size reproductions of the wall paintings that were found in Akrotiri are exhibited at the Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre , Firostefani.  The reproductions depict almost every wall painting of Akrotiri and offer a unique opportunity to be observed in their total.

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