Archaeological Museum of Megara

The Archaeological Museum of Megara presents objects that have come to light from rescue excavations by the former III Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities in the city of Megara and the surrounding region. The findings date from the 8th c. B.C. to the 2nd c. A.D. The purpose of its establishment was to house some of the finds of the Archaeological Collection of Megaron and to constitute a small lung of culture on the outskirts of western Attica. The exhibition is housed in the Old City Hall, a 19th c. building which the Municipality of Megara has temporarily ceded to the III Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. The two-storey building has four exhibition halls. On the ground floor of the building the marble findings are presented. Monumental sculptures and votive reliefs are exhibited in the room A, with background information from excavation research and the literary sources on monumental sculpture and reliefs from Megara from the Archaic to the Roman period. There is also a reconstruction drawing of the Nike of Megara, a copy from an 1847 engraving. In room B, inscriptions are displayed, containing information about public life, chiefly during the Classical period. It also displays Classical, Hellenistic and Roman funerary stelai, framed by related texts and photos. In room C on the first floor, objects selected from grave groups of the 8th to the 1st c. B.C. They are accompanied by visual material, photographs, plans and texts related to the place of the ancient cemeteries in the topography of the modern and the ancient city and its burial customs give information related to the exhibit. In room D, objects related to daily life in antiquity are presented, mainly clay and bronze. Of particular interest is the depository of an archaic sanctuary at site Bouri in Alepochori. From among its hundreds of finds, representing examples of cult and the local pottery workshop are presented. There is a brief presentation of the excavation, with the assistance of visual material. In the courtyard of the museum, inscriptions, statue bases, and architectural members from various periods are presented.