MUSEUMS

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 22860 23217)

Related link: Greek Ministry of Culture

The Wall Paintings of Thera Exhibition

Three-dimensional life-size reproductions of the wall paintings, which found in Akrotiri.

Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre, Firostefani (Tel: +30 22860 23016-19)

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 22860 22217)

The Folklore Museum

Located in Kontohori, Fira, in a cave house built in 1861. The museum displays workshops of carpenters, barrel makers, shoe makers and tinsmiths as well as an original old winery, a gallery with works of local current artists and document archives. (Tel: +30 22860 22792)

The Megaron Gyzi

This beautiful old mansion-museum, located in Fira, exhibits engravings of the 16th through the 19th centuries with dresses, views and maps of the Cycladic islands as well as old manuscripts and old photographs of how Santorini looked before the devastating earthquake of 1956 and paintings of well-known Greek artists who worked on the island.

(Tel: +30 22860 22244) Related link: Megaro Gyzi

The Naval Museum

Located in Ia, the Naval Museum houses all kinds of displays featuring marine objects which trace the maritime history of the island, especially during the 19th century. (Tel: +30 22860 71156)

The Wine Museum

A wine museum, presenting the history of wine in Santorini from 1660 to 1950 with mobile and immobile figures and sound effects. It is located at the premises of the winery "Volcan Wines" of Koutsoyannopoulos family on the way to Kamari beach. (Tel: +30 22860 31322)

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.: 22860 31669)

Art Space
Cultural Center – Winery – Museum
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.: 22860 32774, 6972899509)