The prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri is one of the oldest and most important urban centers of the Aegean. Thera is considered equal to the Acropolis and museums Vergina.
Address: Fira Santorini 847 00 Greece
Phone: +30 22860 23217
Hours: 8.30 – 15.00 (closed Mondaays)
Price: 3 €
Admission is free on Sundays from November to March and the first Sunday of each month except July.
Small but concise, well structured, the museum offers a journey through time only in the distant past of Santorini, Greece and helps visitors to discover, step by step, the continuity and progress of civilization of Thera through the centuries.
Inhabited since at least the mid-fifth millennium BC, was in the third millennium BC when Akrotiri was transformed from a fishing village to a remarkable town on the coast. A few meters from the entrance of the Museum, the marble figures and vases at the foot are reminiscent of the active role played Thera, not only in the early Cycladic civilization, but in the Aegean area in general.
After that, the next door rooms show the high level of development reached in the seventeenth century when it became a commercial port. The town of Thera invented their own ways of measuring quality, ownership and origin of commodities. Vases in standardized and decorations forms, wide range of lead balance weights, vessel stamps on the products that came from Crete, they all make us imagine what it must have been to be a trader in the time.
And last but not least, the golden statue of the goat, his magic is enhanced by the fact that they have not discovered what was the purpose for which it was created.
