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The Patras Archaeological Museum is nowadays one of the city’s milestones, as well as an exhibition space rich in exhibits, with the most current museological views.
The Patras Archaeological Museum is housed and operates since 2009 in a new building, since the until then museum couldn’t stand up to the needs of the third biggest city in Greece, with a big port and continuous financial-social-cultural development. In the exhibition you can see findings from Patras, the surrounding area and generally West Achaia, which cover the time span from 3000BC to the 4th century AD.
The Patras Archaeological Museum is nowadays one of the city’s milestones, as well as an exhibition space rich in exhibits, with the most current museological views.
Although Crete hosts one-quarter of Greece’s annual visitors, it’s still possible to escape the crowds by heading south. Thanks to the rugged mountains that stretch across much of the island’s spine, southern Crete remains a place apart.
The Heraklion Archaeological Museum is one of the most important museums in Greece, with an enormous archaeological collection,and one of the most important in Europe.
The museum was founded in 1967 and opened in September 1993. Housed in a building that exemplifies local traditional architecture and developed at two levels.
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