Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos

The Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos houses exhibits, almost exclusively of a funerary nature, that come from the excavations of the German Archaeological Institute in the archaeological site of Kerameikos, an area of 38,500 sq.m. The Museum is located inside the archeological site of the same name and can be accessed from the pedestrian street of Ermou Street (Ermou 148), near Piraeus Street. It is a modest ground-floor square building, the facade of which is framed by a roofed, Γ-shaped external portico. Inside, there are four exhibition spaces surrounding the roofed atrium, laid out with olives and laurels like a small inner garden. In the first area and the atrium are housed the works of sculpture, covering all the periods of antiquity, while in the remaining three rooms ceramics and other findings that come mainly from the necropolis of Kerameikos are exhibited. Behind the showrooms are storage areas and the maintenance workshop. A publishing house and shop can be found at the entrance to the archaeological site on Ermou Street.