Archaeological Museum

The Kos Town Archaeological Museum is located in Eleftheria Square, opposite the Deffendar market and mosque.

Built by the Italians in 1936, to gather all they had found under the rubble of the 1933 earthquake, from various parts of the island.

The Archaeological Museum consists of an atrium where one can immediately admire a magnificent mosaic that represents the arrival of Aesculapius, the god of medicine, on the island of Kos.

Around the atrium there are three rooms where we find prehistoric terracottas and metal objects of everyday use from the Bronze Age, terracotta from the "geometric" period, sculptures depicting men and women of the Hellenistic-Roman period and found in the Roman Odeon and near the sanctuary of Demeter in Pyli, the marble statue representing Hippocrates of the fourth century and invented at the Odeon, the statues of the Goddess Demeter, of her daughter Persephone and Pluto dating back to the III and IV centuries and the statue of Esclulapio (headless) holding in his hand a stick around which a snake is wrapped and handed down until today as a symbol of medicine.

This small archaeological museum lends itself absolutely to a brief visit to make you a little curious and give a deep cultural imprint on an island like Kos that has much to say and much to tell through what our ancestors left us.

Below we leave the times and the entrance costs:

Timetables

Monday 08.00 - 19.30
Tuesday closed
Wednesday 08.00 - 19.30
Thursday 08.00 - 19.30
Friday 08.00 - 19.30
Saturday 08.00 - 19.30
Sunday 08.00 - 19.30

Entrance fee: € 7 for adults
Discounts: Free under 18 years / Over 65 years 50% discount