Location information

Popular Library of Kalamata

KALAMATA (Town) MESSINIA
Tel: +30 27210 22607
Fax: +30 27210 22907

The Archaeological Museum of Chora

CHORA (Small town) MESSINIA
Chora is close to the archaeological site of Eglianos, where the kingdom of the homeric king Nestoras was. In this museum, which is one of the most important provincial museums of Greece and an «ornament» for the city, archaeogical findings from various historical eras are exhibited. In the three rooms of the museum, there are about 4000 findings from the excavations of Carl Blegen, Spyros Marinatos and lately of professor George Korre, in the areas of Pylia and Trifylia (Peristeria) which belong to the Mesohellenic (2200 - 1580 B.C) and the Late Hellenicc(Mycaenean) Era (1580-1120 B.C).

This text is cited Jan 2003 from the Messenia Prefecture Tourism Promotion Commission URL below, which contains image.

• http://www.na-messinia.gr/docs-en/m-xoras.htm

Antonopouleion Museum

PYLOS (Small town) MESSINIA
The Museum of Pylos is a point of reference for all the monuments of the province. In two of its rooms one can find stored all the movable archaeological findings from the area of Voedokilia and other areas of Pylia from the Stone Age (7.000-3.000 B.C) to the Mycaenaic Era (2600-1120 B.C) and the Hellenistic years(336-31 B.C). There is also a variety of jewels from the Revolution of 1821.

This extract is cited Jan 2003 from the Messenia Prefecture Tourism Promotion Commission URL below, which contains image.

• http://www.na-messinia.gr/docs-en/m-pilou.htm

Folk Arts Museum

SAIDONA (Village) LEFKTRA