Archaeological Museum of Kimolos

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

In a two storey building, one of the most remote on the island on one of the central streets of the town where there is the Old Market outside the Kastro but still inside the traditional village, on the architrave at the ground floor entrance he engraved the date 1846 and until the 60s, it was a shop where flour was ground. In 1965 it was bequeathed to the Ministry of Culture which decided to create the Museum. It began its collection and cataloging activity on 11 July 2006 but was opened to the public and inaugurated on 4 October 2008.

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

Among the finds you can admire a headstone of a headless woman carved in the local rock dating back to the eighth century BC, a female statue one and a half meters high, stone tools, pottery, and sepulchral finds that follow a chronological path. Several photographic records of the places where the discoveries were made as well as drawings, signs, maps and texts recovered from travelers who visited the island in the 17th and 18th centuries. All this collection makes it clear that Kimolos was already inhabited thousands of years ago and that life has been present here since prehistoric times and in the late Neolithic. Even the testimony of the ancient submerged city of Ellinika which is currently the Agios Andreas islet, has given the world the certainty that the human being was present in the Mycenaean, Geometric, Archaic and Hellenistic periods.

An interlude if you are a lover of archeology and history not to be missed during your visit to Kimolos.

Kimolos Archaeological Museum

Chorio

tel. +30 2287051291

fax. +30 2287051719

Opening hours: Tues-Sunday 8.30-15.00

Closed on Mondays