Collections of the Kanelopoulou Museum

Collections of the Kanelopoulou Museum

Exhibits are displayed in the two underground floors of the museum. If one wants to see the museum in a more or less chronological order, it is suggested to begin promptly from the second underground floor.

The collections of the museum are the following: 

- Funerary masks from Fayum (2nd-4th century A.D.) and Coptic fabrics (6th-12th Centuries A.D.).

- Gold jewelry, bronze crosses, vases and lamps of the Byzantine period (6th-12th Centuries A.D.).

- Byzantine coins and lead seals 4) Hieratical vessels and wood carvings of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine period (9th-10th Centuries).

- Icons of the 14th-19th Centuries, many of which adorn the subscriptions of their painters – mostly famous artists of the Cretan School, the School of Constantinople, and from Macedonia.

- Folk art jewelry, fabrics and elements of the popular garments and weapons, dated to the 18th and 19th Centuries.

 

The 2nd Underground Floor

Housed here are the oldest objects of the collection.
Examples of what visitors will see are:

- stone axes and vases of the Neolithic period and the Early Bronze (circa: 2.800 B.C.)
- marble vases and some of the famous Cycladic figurines
- clay figurines of the Minoan civilization representing bulls the sacred animal of the Minoan Religion
- Mycenaean clay figurines and bronze weapons
- clay vases and figurines decorated in various techniques according to the period they were made
- Geometric vases of the 9th to the 7th Century B.C.
- archaic vases of the 7th Century B.C.
- Corinthian vases with the characteristic yellow clay of the 7th-5th Century B.C.
- Attic black figure vases of the 5th Century B.C.
- red figure vases form the turn of the 5th Century through 4th Century B.C.
- white lekythoi that were used for the funerary ceremonies and to carry aromatic oils and the oil lamps of the 1st Century B.C.
- bronze vases of the 5th-1st Century B.C.
- bronze ram form a ship of the 3rd or 2nd century B.C.
- oversized marble woman’s head and other interesting artefacts.


The 1st Underground Floor

This floor is mainly devoted to the art of metallurgy.
Examples of what visitors will see are:

- bronze helmets and daggers
- bronze figurines and strigiles
- intricate golden jewelry mostly of the 3rd Century B.C.
- seal stones of semiprecious stones
- golden impressed bands that had been sewn on funerary clothes
- bronze mirrors
- multicolored perfume bottles made of glass paste
- coins of different city-states of the Ancient Greece.