The Archaeological Museum of Aegina ( Greek: Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Αιγίνης) is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

Aegina Aegina (; el, Αίγινα, ''Aígina'' ; grc, Αἴγῑνα) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina (mythology), Aegina, the mother of the hero Aeacus, who was born ...

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 with ...

, founded on 21 October 1828 by Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first governor of independent Greece.www.aegina.com
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Exhibits

The museum contains a variety of ancient vessels,

pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and por ...

, ceramics, alabasters,

statuette A figurine (a diminutive form of the word ''figure'') or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them. Figurines have been made in many media, with cl ...

s, inscriptions, coins, weapons and copper vessels. These objects are located in three rooms in which are all the exhibits. One of the artifacts of the museum, an

etched carnelian bead Etched carnelian beads, or sometimes bleached carnelian beads, are a type of ancient decorative beads made from carnelian with an etched design in white, which were probably manufactured by the Indus Valley civilization during the 3rd millennium BC ...

, a typical Harappan object, points to ancient trade relations with

Mesopotamia Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the F ...

and the

Indus Valley civilization The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form 2600 BCE to 1900&n ...

. The building where the museum is housed is ground floor, equilateral, stone and tiled with a patio in the center, a wooden portico surrounds the patio and one exterior of the building.

Gallery

Image:Part of the hall of ancient sculptures and pottery, AM Aegina, 176244.jpg, Part of the hall of ancient sculptures and pottery. Image:Early Bronze Age pottery, Early Helladic II, 2400-2300 BC, AM Aegina, 176166.jpg, Early Bronze Age pottery, Early Helladic II, c. 2400–2300 BC. Image:Aegina middle bronze age storage jar with geometric painted decorations.jpg, Middle Bronze Age

pithos Pithos (, grc-gre, πίθος, plural: ' ) is the Greek name of a large storage container. The term in English is applied to such containers used among the civilizations that bordered the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and ...

with geometric painted decorations, c. 2000–1800 BC. Image:Middle Helladic and early Mycenaean pottery, 1900-1650 BC, AM Aegina, 176211.jpg, Middle Helladic and early Mycenaean pottery, c. 1900–1650 BC. Image:Mycenaean figurine, AM Aegina, 176221.jpg, Mycenaean figurine, c. 1700–1050 BC. Image:Protogeometric and geometric pottery, 10th-8th century BC, AM Aegina, 176229.jpg, Protogeometric and geometric pottery, 10th–8th century BC. Image:Large Corinthian jug, ca 600 BC, AM Aegina, 176232.jpg, Large

Corinth Corinth ( ; el, Κόρινθος, Kórinthos, ) is the successor to an ancient city, and is a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, which is located in south-central Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part o ...

ian jug, c. 600 BC. Image:Torso of a statue of Heracles, from older temple of Apollo, 570-560 BC, AM Aegina, 176235.jpg, Torso of a statue of

Heracles Heracles ( ; grc-gre, Ἡρακλῆς, , glory/fame of Hera), born Alcaeus (, ''Alkaios'') or Alcides (, ''Alkeidēs''), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.By his adoptive ...

, from older temple of

Apollo Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label= ...

, c. 570–560 BC. Image:Aegina funerary relief rich style dexiosis 5th century BCE.jpg, Funerary relief, 5th century BC. Image:Early classical sphinx, from Temple of Apollo, 460 BC, AM Aegina, 176239.jpg, Early classical sphinx, from Temple of Apollo, c. 460 BC.

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External links

www.aegina.comMinistry of Culture and Tourism

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