The Archaeological Museum of Paros 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 thes ...

located in

Parikia __NOTOC__ Parikia is the capital and the main port of Paros island. It is one of the most typical Cycladic settlements as it is distinguished by its narrow cobbled paths, the old churches, the small shops and the houses in blue and white. Parikia is ...

Paros Paros (; el, Πάρος; Venetian: ''Paro'') is a Greek island in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of ...

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. The museum was found in 1960 and consists of two rooms and an atrium.

Museum plan

Room A contains Archaic and Classical sculptures. Room B contains pottery, sculptures, and small finds from the Neolithic to the Roman period. The atrium contains sculptures, architectural parts, urns, and a Roman period mosaic floor. Plan Archaeological Museum of Paros-en

Notable exhibits

Parian Marble Parian marble is a fine-grained semi translucent pure-white and entirely flawless marble quarried during the classical era on the Greek island of Paros in the Aegean Sea. It was highly prized by ancient Greeks for making sculptures. Some of the ...

(The shorter fragment base of the Stele). * Cycladian Frying Pan * Gorgon of Paros Marble statue, 6th century BCE. * Fat (or Naked) Lady of Saliagos. The oldest known Cycladic figurine. * The Nike of Paros. An early classical depiction of Nike in marble. *Large amphora, 7th c BC (B2652) File:Parian Chronicle, part and copy of second part, 3rd c BC, AM Paros, A 26, 143954.jpg, alt

The Parian Chronicle (Marmor Parium), 3rd century BC. One of the three parts of the stele on which the Parian Chronicle was inscribed, original, left. Right is copy of second part (original is in Oxford Ashmolean Museum). Archaeological Museum of Paros, A 26., Parian Marble File:Frying Pan in AM Paros, 143866.jpg, Cycladian Frying Pan File:Gorgon statue 550 BC AM Paros A1284, 144023.jpg, Gorgon of Paros File:PAM Pomos 2857.jpg, Fat (or Naked) Lady of Saliagos File:Nike, Paros3.JPG, Nike of Paros File:Large amphora, Melian style, Paros, 7th c BC, AM Paros A 2652 (1).jpg, Large amphora, 7th c BC (B2652)

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External links

Ministry of Culture and Sports, Odesseys, Archaeological Museum of ParosParosweb Archaeological Museum of Paros
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