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Archaeological Museum of Rhodes

Akti Sachtouri 8, Rhodes, Southern Aegean

Closed today: open tomorrow at 08:00

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The Museo Archeologico di Rodi is located inside the monumental Hospital of the Knights in the Medieval City of Rhodes, built between 1440 and 1490 by the Knights of St. John and transformed into a museum in 1916. The Gothic Renaissance building with a central courtyard on four sides is now home to one of the most important archaeological collections in the Dodecanese. In the inner courtyard, an imposing Hellenistic lion statue dominates, holding the head of a bull between its paws, along with fragments of cannonballs as a reminder of the sieges on the city. On the ground floor, visitors can admire funerary steles, inscriptions, medieval sarcophagi, and coats of arms of the Knights. On the first floor, articulated in rooms overlooking the courtyard, there is a rich sequence of artifacts from Ialysos and Kamiros: geometric ceramics, idols, Mycenaean jewelry, metal objects, and Hellenistic coins. Among the main works are the famous Crouching Venus from the 1st century BC, the renowned Head of Helios from the 2nd century BC, and the funerary stele of Krito and Timarista from the 5th century BC. The collection is completed by mosaics, Fikellura vases, Mycenaean lenses, and an archaic statue of Athena/Artemis.

	opens - closes	last entry
monday	08:00 - 20:00
tuesday	08:00 - 20:00
wednesday	08:00 - 20:00
thursday	08:00 - 20:00
friday	08:00 - 20:00
saturday	08:00 - 20:00
sunday	08:00 - 20:00

Archaeological Museum of Rhodes

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