Museums

: Wall painting from Akrotiri at the Museum of Prehistoric Thera

: Archaeological Museum

: The Naval Museum

: The Folkore Museum

: The Wine Museum

: Cultural Village "Vanishing Santorini"

: Art Space

: La Ponta

The Museum of Prehistoric Thera

The Museum of Prehistoric Thera, located in the island's capital Fira, is not an ordinary provincial museum. Its special contents, masterpieces of art in the prehistoric Aegean, such as the famous wall-paintings and the unique gold ibex figurine, place it on a par with the Acropolis Museum of Classical Greece (Parthenon sculptures) and the Vergina Museum of Northern Greece. Tel: +30 2286023217

The Archaeological Museum

In Fira, the island's capital, stands the Archeological Museum in which are housed finds representing the island's long history. The Museum contains collections of sculpture (ranging from the Archaic to the Roman period), inscriptions (ranging from the Archaic to the Roman period) and vases and clay figurines (dating from the Geometric to the Hellenistic periods). Tel: +30 2286022217

The Naval Museum

Located in Oia, the Naval Museum houses all kinds of displays featuring marine objects which trace the maritime history of the island, especially during the 19th century. Priceless objects of great ship owners, rich photographic material and a library, are all recording year by year the important role of Therans in the glorious history of the Greek Navy. Tel.: +30 2286071156

The Megaron Gyzi Museum

It is housed in one of the few 17th century old family mansions with special architectural interest and beauty, in Fira. The Museum hosts six permanent exhibitions. In particular, an exhibition of authentic engravings with maps, landscapes and dresses of the Cycladic islands from the 15th until the 19th century, an exhibition of old theraic public and private historical manuscripts from late 16th to early 19th century, a collection of art paintings with Santorini as theme by well-known Greek artists, a collection of old photographs of scenic Santorini from 1930 until 1956 and a collection of Santorini’s strata. The Museum is open from May 1st until October 31st, daily (except Sundays) 10:00 -16:00. Tel.: +30 2286023077

The Folklore Museum

The Folklore Museum is located in Kontochori, Fira, in a cave-house built in 1861. The museum displays workshops of carpenters, barrel makers, shoemakers and blacksmiths as well as an original old winery, a gallery with works of local current artists and document archives. Tel.: +30 2286022792

The Wine Museum

The Wine Museum is located on the premises of the winery “Volcan Wines” which belongs to the Koutsoyannopoulos family, on the way to Kamari beach, presenting the history of wine on Santorini from 1660 up to date. Tel.: +30 2286031322

Cultural Village “Vanishing Santorini”

It can be found in an old canava in Pyrgos and gives the visitor the opportunity to enjoy a museum-like collection of artifacts and photographs. This collection reflects the bygone traditional way of life of the island as well as the economic activities of the inhabitants of the time. Tel.: +30 2286031101

Art Space

The Art Space, in Exo Gonia, is a contemporary visual arts center housed in the restored undercover rooms and the canavas of an old 1861 winery. For the past decade, representative works of modern painting and sculpture, made by important Greek and foreign artists have been displayed in the Canava’s traditional setting. (Tel.: +30 2286032774, 6972899509)

Santozeum

Three-dimensional life-size reproductions of the wall paintings that were found in Akrotiri are exhibited at Santozeum Museum in Fira. The reproductions depict almost every wall painting of Akrotiri and offer a unique opportunity to be observed in their total. Tel.: +30 2286021722

La Ponta

La Ponta, a 13th century tower, is located within the Venetian castle (Kasteli) of Akrotiri. The tower hosts a tsabouna - Greek folk wind instrument of the bagpipe family - exhibition and workshop along with traditional Greek percussion instruments and flutes. Tel.: +30 2286085374

Argyros Mansion

It is one of the most notable and more recently build monuments of Santorini that combines the traditional Theraic architecture with neoclassic elements, offering you an authentic sight of the Greek cultural heritage. The furnishings and the household effects of the building, as well as its exceptional ceiling paintings, are preserved until today. Tel.: +30 2286031669

Museum of Musical Instruments

The Museum of Ancient, Byzantine and Post Byzantine Musical Instruments is located in Oia and presents the collection of Mr. Christodoulos Halaris. The museum houses more than 80 instruments that were used in Greece from 2800 BC to the early 20th century, and were reconstructed with the help of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The instruments are accompanied by the artistic evidence available for each of them, like vases, figurines, sculptures, etc. Tel.: +30 6944423666

The Icons and Relics Collection of Pyrgos

Aghia Triada that today houses the collection, used to be a catholic church of a small convent. The collection has icons with Cretan and local hagiographies, wooden sculptures and metal art works, pottery, embroideries and other items for ecclesiastic use dated mostly from the 17th and 18th century. Tel.: +30 2286031812