The entrance to the Archaeological Museum of Sparta

The Archaeological Museum of Sparta ( el, Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Σπάρτης), founded in 1875, is a museum in

Sparta Sparta ( Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referre ...

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders ...

that houses thousands of artifacts from the ancient Acropolis of Sparta and the rest of the municipality of Laconia. It is one of Greece's oldest

archaeology museum An archaeology museum is a museum that specializes in the display of archaeological Types Many archaeology museum are in the open air, such as the Ancient Agora of Athens and the Roman Forum. Others display artifacts inside buildings, such as ...

s. The collection's pieces date from the

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several p ...

to the late

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. There are seven rooms of an approximate area of which display only a small part of the collection.

History

The museum is one of Greece's oldest archaeology museums. Years after its opening, it was largely neglected with most of its pieces currently stored in warehouses. In July 2020, the Greek Minister of Culture and Sports

Lina Mendoni Lina Mendoni ( el, Λίνα Μενδώνη) is a Greek politician. , she serves as Minister of Culture and Sports in the cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. She has a PhD in archaeology from the University of Athens The National and Kapodistria ...

approved plans to construct a new Archaeological Museum of Sparta and renovate the existing museum. The initiative included significant funding and promotion from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Collections

In the museum are housed finds from excavations around the prefecture of Lakonia, provided that they are not exposed in collections of the archaeological museum Gythion or Neapolis. *Room I: Stelae of Roman years. *Room II: Finds from the shrine of Artemis Orthia. *Room III: Monumental sculpture and portraiture of Roman era. *Room IV: Prehistoric finds from the wider region of Lakonia. *Room V: Samples of Roman mosaics. *Room VI: Architectonic parts of Apollo temple in Amyclae, that constitute also the more major department of collection *Room VII: Finds of Lakonian sculpture.Themos Ath. Archaeological Museum Of Sparta, on ''Odysseus''
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References

External links

Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism

in Greek

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