The Museum

Ever since the city of Volos began to prosper, there has been a marked interest in archaelogical research throughout the region. Finds from the excavations are displayed in Volos Archaelogical Museum, a neoclassical building datings from 1907 and situated to the eastern side of the city.

Objects originating from the famous prehistoric sites of Dimini and Sesklo illustrate the neolithic cultures which grew up at the innermost recess of the Pagasetic Gulf and Thessaly. Clay statuettes and utensils of the Geometric period shed light on the times which are related of in the legends of the Expedition of the Argonauts and Homer's epics.

Sculptures from the classical period and rare jointed statuettes are displayed side by side with reliefs of the Alexandrine period from Demetrias. Rare steles with relief work preserve the colours with which the ancient Greeks decorated their works of art in marble. Reliefs from the early Christian period and Byzantine stone reliefs are evidence of the continuity of the Latin influence on Mt. Pelion.

In the Anavros Park, on the seafront opposite the Museum, the centuries old tradition in the plastic arts is continued by a representative sample of works by modern sculptors.