Archaeological Museum of Milos

The Archaeological Museum of Milos is a museum, in Plaka, Milos on Milos, in Greece. Its collections include exhibits dating from the late Neolithic to the Byzantine period. The unique is collection of ancient Cycladic art, especially numerous findings from Phylakopi on Milos, from early Bronze Age to the late Bronze Age. The best pieces from Phylakopi are in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), in the British Museum and in the National Museum of Athens and elsewhere around the world.

The museum is housed since 1985 in a neo-classical building dating from 1870 on the main square in Plaka. In the porch of the building and on the courtyard is lapidary with torsos from the late antiquity.

Room 1[]

The first room hosts large pottery vessels since the late Bronze Age to the Greek archaic period, a modern copy of the statue of Venus de Milo and a collection of obsidian tools from Neolithic to early Bronze Age.

Pithos, late Bronze Age
Fragments of a Melian pithamphora, 650-600 BC
Large pithos, 6th century BC
Obsidian tools
Obsidian blades

Room 2[]

The main museum treasures: The Bronze Age on Milos: Early Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean artefacts from Phylakopi and from other places of the island.

Early Cyclydic pottery pyxides, ca 3200-2500 BC
House model, tufa. Early Cycladic era, 3rd millennium BC
House model, pottery, from Rivari, 2500-2000 BC
Pottery kernos, Rivari, 2500 to 2000 BC
Pottery from Phylakopi, Phylakopi I culture, ca 2200-2000 BC
Pottery from Phylakopi, Phylakopi I-II culture, 20th century BC
Pottery from Phylakopi, Phylakopi I-II culture, 20th century BC
Red-painted goblet from Phylakopi, Phylakopi II culture, middle Bronze Age
Offering table fragment, Phylakopi III, Late Cycladic I, Minoan influence
Bath-tub (asaminthos), Phylakopi III, Late Cycladic I, Minoan influence
Pithos, Phylakopi III, Minoan influence
Late Bronze Age Melian pottery, Phylakopi III
Minoan pottery made in Crete, Phylakopi III
Lady of Phylakopi, from shrine in Phylakopi, Phylakopi III (IV ?), 14th century BC or later
Male figurine from West Shrine in Phylakopi, Phylakopi IV culture, 12th century BC
Bull, rom West Shrine in Phylakopi, Fylakopi IV culture, Mycenaean