Mykonos · Museums
Where the island keeps its treasures, from ancient sculpture to the objects of everyday village life.
Essential
Chora
Founded in 1902 and housed since 1905 in a neoclassical building in Chora, one of the oldest museums in Greece. It holds the finds from the purification pit of Rhenia, where Athens reburied the dead of Delos in 426/425 BC, pottery of the 9th to 6th centuries BC and a lapidarium garden of ancient stones.
Must see: The Mykonos pithos of about 675 BC, made on Tinos, with one of the earliest images of the Trojan Horse; human bones were found inside it
Chora
Founded in 1983 by George M. Drakopoulos and opened in 1985 in a 19th-century Mykonian house at Tria Pigadia, devoted to the merchant ships of the Aegean, with ship models, maps, instruments and engravings.
Must see: The Armenistis lighthouse mechanism and the ancient sailors' gravestones in the garden
More to explore
Chora (Kastro)
Set up by a foundation of 1958, created by Vasilis D. Kyriazopoulos, in a 16th-century captain's house in the Kastro, beside Paraportiani, with furniture, embroidery, tools and the everyday life of old Mykonos. Its branches are Lena's House and the Agricultural Museum.
Must see: The captain's house itself, among the oldest in Chora
Chora (Tria Pigadia)
A 19th-century middle-class house at Tria Pigadia, kept by the Folklore Museum exactly as its owner Lena lived in it, with its original furniture, embroidery and household things.
Must see: The embroidered linens and the furnished rooms
Ano Mili, Chora
The 16th-century Boni windmill on the hill of Ano Mili, restored with the miller's house, a threshing floor, an oven, a winepress, a dovecote and twin chapels around it.
Must see: The working gear inside the windmill
Delos
The site museum of Delos, with statues, reliefs, mosaics and finds from the excavations, including the original lions of the Naxians, which have been replaced by copies on the terrace.
Must see: The original marble lions
Opening hours change seasonally. Check with each museum before visiting.
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