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Archaeological museum of Volos

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Archaeological museum of Volos is an art museum in Volos Municipality, Greece.
About Archaeological museum of Volos
The Archaeological Museum of Volos, also known as Athanasakeion Archaeological Museum of Volos, is an archaeology museum in Volos, Greece, that houses many exquisite finds from early 20th-century and modern archaeological excavations in Thessaly. One of the oldest museums of Greece, it was constructed in 1909 and is housed in a neoclassical building. Alexios Athanassakis, a merchant from Portaria, financed its construction and granted it to the Greek State after it was completed.
Exhibits on display include jewelry, household utensils and agricultural tools, originating from the Neolithic settlements of Dimini and Sesklo, as well as clay statuettes and a wide variety of items from the Geometric period, a time of great heroic events, such as the Argonaut Expedition and the Trojan War.
Archaeological museum of Volos by the numbers
- Founded
- 1909
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