The Archaeological Museum of Argostoli, also known as the Kefalonia Museum is a
museum
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in
Argostoli
Argostoli ( el, Αργοστόλι, Katharevousa: Ἀργοστόλιον) is a town and a municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is one of the three municipalities on the islan ...
,
Greece
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, located a few blocks south of the central square, across the Municipal Theater on R. Vergoti St..
The old museum was destroyed by an earthquake in 1953. The current building was built in 1960
and designed by the well-known architect
Patroklos Karantinos.
The museum also features many other items of pottery and jewelry from excavations around the island and
Melissani Lake. It also contains some 3rd-century BC tombstones, a 2nd-century BC mosaic from the temple of
Poseidon
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and archived photographs of an 1899 excavation at
Sami
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Closed
After heavy earthquake damage since Jan 2014 the museum remains officially closed. https://web.archive.org/web/20121117114909/http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/4/eh41.jsp?obj_id=3618
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Argostoli
Argostoli ( el, Αργοστόλι, Katharevousa: Ἀργοστόλιον) is a town and a municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is one of the three municipalities on the islan ...
Buildings and structures completed in 1960
Argostoli
Museums in the Ionian Islands (region)
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