Museum

The Archaeological Museum of Corfu

Name: The Archaeological Museum of Corfu
Address: 1 Vrela Armeni, Kerkira, GR

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Spiros

September 27, 2022

The Archaeological Museum of Corfu has been located in a modern, two-storey building in the Garitsa area since 1967. It showcases a wide range of antiquities from the ancient city of Corfu and the rest of the island. From 2012 to 2016, a comprehensive project was undertaken to restore the building complex and re-exhibit the collections using a modern museological approach. The new exhibition provides visitors with the opportunity to explore the cultural heritage of the island from Prehistoric to Roman times, featuring a diverse collection of exhibits that include both important works of art and everyday objects.

Elena

October 15, 2021

At the beginning of the 20th century, the archaeological collection of Corfu, as small, was housed in a High School of the city and later transferred to a building built to create an Archaeological Museum. Its original purpose was to host and exhibit antiquities from the Temple of Artemis Corfu. Excavations that were carried out later were the reason for which the expansion of the Museum was required, as a result of which additions and appropriate alterations were created in order to adequately house the now rich archaeological collection of Corfu. The Museum was inaugurated in March 2019 after its renovation and the re-exhibition of its collections.