The interesting Kimolos Archaeological Museum, we find it in the capital Choriojust in front of the Panagia Odigitria Church.

In a two storeybuilding, one of the most remote on the island on one of the centralstreets of the town where there is the Old Market outside the Kastrobut still inside the traditional village, on the architrave at theground floor entrance he engraved the date 1846 and until the 60s, itwas a shop where flour was ground. In 1965 it was bequeathed to theMinistry of Culture which decided to create the Museum. It began itscollection and cataloging activity on 11 July 2006 but was opened tothe public and inaugurated on 4 October 2008.

On the first floorthere is the administrative office, the laboratories that deal withthe conservation and maintenance of the finds and the warehouses.Through a narrow stone staircase you arrive in three rooms where inone the Kimolos story is described with artifacts found from themost ancient settlement known to date through a projection of a filmthat retraces the times up to the modern ones, while the others twohouse the actual remains which are kept in showcases on the walls oron the floor divided by historical periods. Of note, thereconstruction of an ancient burial exactly as it was found by theexcavations, visible from the transparent crystal floor itself.

Among the finds you canadmire a headstone of a headless woman carved in the local rockdating back to the eighth century BC, a female statue one and a halfmeters high, stone tools, pottery, and sepulchral finds that follow achronological path. Several photographic records of the places wherethe discoveries were made as well as drawings, signs, maps and textsrecovered from travelers who visited the island in the 17th and 18thcenturies. All this collection makes it clear that Kimolos wasalready inhabited thousands of years ago and that life has beenpresent here since prehistoric times and in the late Neolithic. Eventhe testimony of the ancient submerged city of Ellinika which iscurrently the Agios Andreas islet, has given the world thecertainty that the human being was present in the Mycenaean,Geometric, Archaic and Hellenistic periods.

An interlude if you area lover of archeology and history not to be missed during your visitto Kimolos.

Kimolos Archaeological Museum

Chorio

tel. +30 2287051291

fax. +30 2287051719

Opening hours: Tues-Sunday8.30-15.00

Closed on Mondays