Archaeological Museum of Kalymnos — Attraction in Municipality of Kalymnos

My wife and I certainly recommend visiting the Archaeological Museum of Kalymnos. While it is not comparable to the fabulous museums in Athens and Herakleon, it has several very important positive features.

In the first place the museum provides thoughtful, thoroughly readable introductory remarks in both English and Greek. Moreover, objects are beautifully presented in an attractive, modern building, museum staff are friendly and very well-informed, and tickets are inexpensive.

Secondly, rather than focusing on the relatively short period of the flowering of classic Greek art and culture, the displays cover a much much longer time horizon, and they identify periods of advancement and decline.

Thirdly, the museum focuses on Kalymnos: in essence, the visitor enjoys a relatively concise and coherent sketch of developments in Kalymnosin ver five millennia.

Finally, the displays and the introductory notes emphasize the links between developments in Kalymnos and developments elsewhere, including improvements in technology, the formation and dissolution of states, and changes in...

Very nice small museum. Of course one must remember that this is not a huge National Museum. After all, we are on the small island of Kalymnos. But one can be very grateful that so much effort is made to help the visitor understand that ancient Kalymnos was part of a flourishing Greek civilisation. Many objects that look at first glance unimpressive are amazing exhibits. For example there is an inscription on display which contains a text about a certain Isodotos who sets his female slave Tyche free with certain conditions. This is a good example of a manumission inscription with "staying agreement" and immensely important for the study of slavery in antiquity and for understanding the image of freedom from slavery as it occurs in the Bible (for example Romans 6-8). The staff was also very nice and answered joyfully and enthusiastically some questions we had about the objects on display!...

Visited here I am so glad my son as been to museums back home or he might fear visiting museums after todays experience lovely artifacts but the photo policy should be explained better; told around 5 photos no flash. I took 6 and had someone pounce saying taje as a whole not of individuals perhaps this should be said better at payment? I felt i was being watched like a hawk, as if i was to run away with something or plot a theft!! I have been to many museums including the british museum, heraklion museum etc and never felt this way. I do not give off I am an historian, shall i carry a banner? Again I am thankful my son as experienced other museums, i would not really recommend a visit here due to this...