Archaeological Museum of Piraeus

The Archaeological Museum of Piraeus is a museum in Piraeus, a port city within the Athens urban area in Greece. It contains mainly sculptures, discovered in Piraeus and in the area of the Attic coast from Bronze Age to Roman times.^[1]

The ruins of the Theatre of Zea [el], next to the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus

Collections

The open-air exhibition along the Ancient Greek theater in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.

The museum's displayed objects are divided in sections:^[2]

• Prehistoric collection (Mycenaean)
• Pottery collection
• Bronze statues
• A reconstruction of a typical Classical sanctuary (Cybele's)
• Classical gravestones
• Large funerary monuments
• Hellenistic sculptures
• Roman sculptures

The building

The old building of the museum (330 m^{2 [1]}), which is currently used as a storage room, was built in 1935.^[3] The new two-store building, which was inaugurated in 1981,^[3] covers a total area of total 1.394 m². Both buildings neighbour on the Zeas (Greek: Ζέα) ancient classical theater. In the near future, the theater site is going to be used as an open-air sculpture exhibition.^[1]

Visitors information

The museum is accessible with the Athens metro or bus lines. It is 15-minute walk from Piraeus station and a couple minute walk from bus station. Moreover, it is a 5-minute walk from the area for the reception of Cruise ships of the Piraeus port.

Gallery

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  Funerary relief for a girl, flanked by her parents (330/320 BC)
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  The Piraeus Athena, a classical-age bronze
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  The Piraeus Apollo, an archaic-age bronze
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  Copy of Piraeus Lion
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  Nude ephebe (2nd century CE), Roman copy after an original of the Polykleitan school
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  Bronze statue of a Piraeus Artemis. It dates from the mid-4th century and is attributed to the sculptor Euphranor
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  Bronze tragic mask from the mid-4th century and is attributed to the sculptor Silanion
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  Remains of a colossal statue of Hadrian.

See also

• List of museums in Greece
• Ancient Greek art
• Ancient Greek sculpture
• Pottery of ancient Greece