Heraklion Archaeological Museum
 Southwest side of the museum building |
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| place | Heraklion |
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| opening | 1952 |
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Nota Dimopoulou
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The Heraklion Archaeological Museum in the city of Heraklion on the island of Crete is considered to be the most important collection of antiquities in Greece after the National Museum in Athens .
After seven years of renovation, the museum reopened in May 2014. The collections are fully accessible again.
Museum construction
The museum, designed by Patroklos Karantinos in 1930 , consists of 20 halls spread over two floors:
- Ground floor: Halls I, II, II, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIX and XX;
- Upper floor: Halls XIV, XV, XVI, XVII and XVIII.
The individual exhibits are occasionally rearranged, but the basic structure of the museum changes only slightly; it follows a mixture of periodic, geographical and thematic sorting. Since 2004, rooms XVII and XVIII with the Giamalakis collection have been reopened.
- Room I: Neolithic (7000–3500 BC) and pre- palace period
- Hall II: Old Palace Period or Early Palace Period (1900–1800 BC)
- Hall III: Old Palace Period and the Palace of Phaistos (1900–1700 BC)
- Room IV: Neupalastzeit or younger palace period (. 1700 to 1400 BC.) And the palaces of Knossos, Phaistos and Malia
- Room V: The heyday and late period of the Palace of Knossos (1500–1450 BC)
- Room VI: Necropolis of Knossos, Phaistos and Archanes (1450-1300 BC)
- Room VII: Megara , villas and mansions of Vathypetro , Nirou , Tylissos and Amnissos as well as the caves of central Crete of Arkalochori , Psychro and Patsos and the necropolises of Malia, Mochlos , Gournia and Episkopi (1700–1450 BC)
- Room VIII: Palace of Zakros (1700–1450 BC)
- Hall IX: New Palace period in East Crete; Palekastro , Psira , Gourniam , Piskokephalo , Mochlos and Myrtos
- Room X: Postpalatial : Minoische culture and early Geometric period (. 1450 to 1100 BC.)
- Room XI: Subminoean, Protogeometric and Early Geometric Period (1100–800 BC)
- Hall XII: High Geometric and Orientalizing Period (800–650 BC)
- Room XIII: Minoan sarcophagi
- Room XIV: Minoan wall paintings (1700–1300 BC)
- Room XV: Minoan wall paintings
- Room XVI: Minoan wall paintings
- Room XVII: Collection of Stylianos Giamalakis. (Jiamalaki)
- Room XVIII: Cabaret from Archaic, Classical and Roman times (7th century BC to 4th century AD)
- Hall XIX: large sculpture from the archaic period (650–550 BC)
- Room XX: Glyptics from Classical, Hellenistic and Roman times (5th century BC to 4th century AD)
Exhibits
Exhibits include the finds from Knossos , Phaistos , Agia Triada and various other archaeological sites on the island such as Kato Zakros .
The famous Phaistos Disc (Hall III), amphorae and bowls with linear letters A (Hall IV), a helmet made of boar teeth (Hall VI), the snake goddesses (Hall IV), the bull jumper (Hall IV), the clay model are also exhibited here a one-story house (room V), the rhyton made of rock crystal (room VII), the reaper vase (room VII), the unique stone coffin from Agia Triada (room XIV) and various frescoes (rooms XIV, XV and XVI).
The exhibits date from the period between the 7th millennium BC. Until the 4th century AD; The Historical Museum in Heraklion (early Christian times to the present) seamlessly connects to this era .
Until the 1960s, almost all archaeological finds were brought to Heraklion ; only recently have decentralized museums been set up in Agios Nikolaos , Chania and Rethymno .
Minoan rhyton in the shape of a bull, around 1550–1500 BC Chr.
So-called little serpent goddess made of faience from the cult treasury of the sanctuary of the palace of Knossos, around 1700–1450 BC. Chr.
Clay model of a one-story stone house with numerous architectural details from Archanes
Coin from Knossos depicting the labyrinth, 4th century BC. Chr.
Rhyton carrier, part of the "processional fresco" from Knossos, 1400 BC Chr.
Detail of a sarcophagus from Agia Triada: right section of the eastern long side, around 14th century BC Chr.
See also
literature
- Stylianos Alexiou : Guide to the archaeological museum of Heraclion. General Direction of Antiquities and Restoration, Athens 1968 (English).
- Stylianos Alexiou: Minoan Culture. Translated by Werner Liebich. Musterschmidt, Göttingen et al. 1976, ISBN 3-7881-1508-4 .
- Nota Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki: The Archaeological Museum of Herakleion . Olkos, Athens 2005, ISBN 9-60-86743-8-7 , p. 414 (English).
- Antonis Vasilakis: The Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Guide to the collections. Adam Publishing, Athens 2005, ISBN 960-500-264-7 .
Web links
- Official website of the Heraklion Archaeological Museum (English, Greek)
- Heraklion Archaeological Museum . In: Website of the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sport (English)
- Literature from and about the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in the catalog of the German National Library
Coordinates: 35 ° 20 ′ 22.3 " N , 25 ° 8 ′ 14" E