Archaeological Museum of Corfu — Attraction in Municipality of Central Corfu and Diapontia Islands

The Archaeological Museum of Corfu is housed since 1967 in a two-storey modern building in the area of Garitsa. It houses antiquities from the ancient city of Corfu and the rest of the island.

From 2012 until 2016 an extensive project for the restoration of the building complex and the re-exhibition of its collections based on a modern museological approach was launched.

The new exhibition offers to visitors the chance to familiarize themselves with the cultural heritage of the island from Prehistoric to Roman times through a rich collection of exhibits that includes important works of art as well as objects of everyday use.

The exhibition unfolds on two levels.

On the ground floor, the prehistoric finds, many of which are displayed for the first time, travel visitors to the distant past of the island, from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. In the next gallery the exhibition narrates the history of the foundation of the ancient city in the late 8th century BC during the period of colonization and makes reference to its contacts with the other powerful Greek cities of the period.

On the floor, visitors have the opportunity to explore the historical course of Corfu from the 7th century BC until the 4th century AD. Key events in this timeline are the city's peak in Archaic and Classical times due to commerce, the turning point in the late 5th century BC as a consequence of the Peloponnesian war and the civil conflict, the uncertainty of the Hellenistic period with the successive claims of the island by various rulers, which gradually led to its decline and surrender to the Romans in 229 BC, and, finally, the island's short recovery under the Roman protection in the early...

Large, clean and fresh looking building within the interior. That looks like a prison on the outside. Very few mediocre exhibits poorly labelled and numbered. Some of the exhibits were dated to the Hellenistic period. It would be great if we were taught what century they’re talking about? Huge amounts of empty space not utilised to good effect.

The area where they have an exhibit showing a roof line entrance way is poorly laid out and doesn’t give you any idea of what scale this building would have been. It would’ve been great to have a scale model to look at.

I get the impression they spent all the money on marble flooring and flat screen information points. Rather than getting an experienced museum curator.

Toilets were dirty.

Perhaps some friendly faced volunteers sharing their passion would’ve been good.

Museum shop was ok. I did want to buy a T-shirt, as I still enjoyed the museum somewhat. But sadly they didn’t have an adult sized T-shirts available for purchase.

€10 for a 30 minute visit was overpriced.

Kos museum was such a different experience and I feel that the curator of Corfu museum should go and have a look.

Looking forward to returning in a few years to see if the museum...

It’s a small museum. If you are interested in Ancient Greek art and architecture than you will enjoy it though. There are small sections downstairs on prehistoric, Stone Age and Bronze Age Corfu. The upstairs of the museum is dedicated to life in Corfu from about 700BC onwards. There are some very interesting exhibits but the pediment from the Temple of Artemis that was discovered south of Corfu Town is amazing. There are sections on life and death in ancient Corfu, sections about trade. It is interesting to know how successful a trading outpost it was.

It’s a small but interesting museum. There is no cafe and you’ll be done in an hour. There’s a lift. Entry was €6 but it’s probably more worthwhile to get the combined ticket to 5 museums for €14. This is for the Archaelogical Museum, the Old Fort, the Asian Art Museum, the Byzantine Museum and the Paleopolis Museum at Mon Repos. Prices correct as of...