Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth — Attraction in Municipality of Corinth

From wikipedia - Corinth derives its name from Ancient Corinth, a city-state of antiquity. The site was occupied from before 3000 BC. But historical sources about the city concerns the early 8th century BC, when Corinth began to develop as a commercial center. Between the 8th and 7th centuries, the Bacchiad family ruled Corinth. Cypselus overthrew the Bacchiad family, and between 657 and 550 BC, he and his son Periander ruled Corinth as the Tyrants.

In about 550 BC, an oligarchical government seized power. This government allied with Sparta within the Peloponnesian League, and Corinth participated in the Persian Wars and Peloponnesian War as an ally of Sparta. After Sparta's victory in the Peloponnesian war, the two allies fell out with one another, and Corinth pursued an independent policy in the various wars of the early 4th century BC. After the Macedonian conquest of Greece, the Acrocorinth was the seat of a Macedonian garrison until 243 BC, when the city was liberated and joined the Achaean League. Nearly a century later, in 146 BC, Corinth was captured and destroyed by Roman armies.

As a Roman colony in 44 BC, Corinth flourished and became the administrative capital of the Roman province of Achaea.[3]

In 1858, the old city, now known as Ancient Corinth (Αρχαία Κόρινθος, Archaia Korinthos), located 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) south-west of the modern city, was totally destroyed by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake. New Corinth (Nea Korinthos) was then built to the north-east of it, on the coast of the Gulf of Corinth. In 1928 a magnitude 6.3 earthquake devastated the new city, which was then rebuilt on the same site.[4] In 1933 there was a great fire, and the new city was...

This place is an absolute disgrace masquerading as a museum. When you first walk up, you’ll see a couple of statues out front — not bad, but don’t let that fool you. The moment you try to get in, you’re hit with the insane 15-euro ticket price. Not long ago it was only 3 euros, but now they’ve decided to rip off tourists by charging five times more for… what, exactly? Certainly not for upkeep or quality, because the place is practically abandoned.

Inside, it only gets worse. They’re shamelessly peddling junk at sky-high prices — 7 euros for a bland photo of the view, the kind of thing you can take with your own phone for free. The whole atmosphere screams money-grab rather than culture. Meanwhile, stray cats wander around freely, and plastic bags and trash are scattered everywhere. If they can’t be bothered to clean their grounds, why on earth are they demanding 15 euros a head? It’s embarrassing.

This so-called museum isn’t just overpriced, it’s insulting. Greece is overflowing with real history and stunning sites that are either free or well worth the price. Here, you’re just paying to be scammed. Save your money, your time, and your sanity — avoid this dump...

The quality of the display is a 5 stars. However the quality or better yet, the attitude of the staff, is the worst.

This is the only place in Greece where you can't take pictures with the statues. In other words, you can photograph the statues, but you can't be next or close to the statues when you take the pictures. For that, I was yelled at and treated like a 5 year old.

Let me make this clear, I wasn't touching the statue, nor disrespecting in any way. Is pretty simple, just put a sign stating the fact and treat people with respect and dignity. Completely rude staff at this museum.

Greece is one of those places, where if it wasn't for the ancient ruins, it will be completely unimportant as a country. As a country is filthy, especially Athens, where trash and grafitti is everywhere not to mention the people leaving on the streets.

Sadly, they have not figure out why they are bankrupt and attitude is a big part of it!!!

Make yourself a favor and visit other countries which have better ruins like Ancienth Ephesus in Turkey or The Old City in Dubrovnik, Croatia. People on those 2 countries...