Archaeological Museum of Piraeus

The Piraeus Archaeological Museum is located near the port of Zea. Its permanent exhibition features findings mostly from the city and the southern shore of Attica. The museum's collection spans the Mycenaean era through Roman times and reconstructs the history of ancient Piraeus, a major commercial city in the Eastern Mediterranean.

This frequently ignored, but must-see, the museum traces Piraeus' history from the Mycenaean to Roman eras—a span of 2,200 years during which the port city prospered as a shipyard and important military and economic center. The museum's main exhibits were discovered at Piraeus and along the Attica shoreline. The museum gardens contain remnants of Zea's theatre from the second century B.C. The 4th century B.C. bronze sculptures discovered during maintenance on the Piraeus sewage system in 1959 are particularly impressive. The statues were buried in a neighboring cemetery to protect them from invaders and Christians. Don't miss Praxiteles' statue of Artemis, one of antiquity's finest sculptors.

Location: 31 Trikoupi Charilaou, Piraeus, Attica 185 36

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