Archeological Museum of Andros

It is an austere, two-storey building, designed by architect Stamos Papadakis and built in 1981 after a donation by the Vasilis and Eliza Goulandri Foundation. On the first floor there are findings from excavations in the Geometric settlement of Zagora, as well as aerial photographs, maquettes, etc. On the ground floor, exhibits are mainly sculptures and relieves from the archaic and roman era mostly from Palaiopolis, the island’s ancient capital. One of the museums most impressive exhibits are the headless Kouroi, the Hermes of Andros, a Hellenistic replica of Hermes of Praxiteles and the torso of Artemis, a roman replica from an original work of the 2nd century.

Location / Access
In Hora, in Theofilos Kairis square.

Days / Hours of Operation
Winter schedule: Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30 – 15:00
Summer Schedule: Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30 – 15:00

Contact
Tel. 22820 23664
Fax. 22820 23664

Archeological Museum of Palaiopolis
The Museum is housed in a building of the community of Palaiopolis donated by the Foundation of Vasilis and Eliza Goulandri. The collection includes sculptures, statues, coins and inscriptions found in the excavations of the island’s ancient capital, what is now Palaiopolis. It was an important Ionic town with 12 centuries of life (6th b.C. – 6th a.C.).  The most significant exhibits are the marble lion, the marble statuette of Artemis and a marble slate with the only complete hymn to goddess Isis in Greece. Isis, the sanctum of whom is yet to be discovered, was worshipped as an earth, heavenly and sea goddess and was probably a pre-Christian figure of Mother Mary.

Location / Access
In the center of the settlement of Palaiopolis, which is 7 km from Mpatsi and 15 km from Gavrio.

Days / Hours of Operation
Winter schedule: Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30 – 15:00
Summer schedule: Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30 – 15:00

Contact
Tel.  22820 41985

Cycladian Museum of Olive (Olive Press of Helmis)
The oil press is in the ground floor of a two-storey, stone building, which is, according to sources, more than 150 years old. The structure is a typical example of a pre-industrial, animal-powered unit for extracting olive oil. The last owner has donated the building, along with its equipment, to the Development Company of Andros Inc. for its renovation and conversion into a museum.
The Museum displays the olive oil production process in the traditional rural communities of Andros and also provides valuable information about this valuable product.

Location / Access
It is located in village Pitrofos, which is over the road from Gavrio to Hora, near Stavropeda.

Days / Hours of Operation
The institutions that have contributed to the renovation and development of the building no longer support its operation. Today’s owner, D. Helmis, can be contacted to guide visitors around the place and demonstrate the operation of the oil press.

Contact
Tel.  210 7700630
Web site: www.musioelias.gr
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Folklore Museum – Cultural Heritage of Syneti
The Museum is housed in the village’s school, which was built in 1900, donated by Greece’s national benefactor Andreas Syggros; it was closed in 1999 for lack of students. A typical house of Andros has been recreated in its rooms, with the appropriate furniture, objects and tools, while a classroom of the school has also been preserved in its original form.

Location / Access
In village Syneti of the Korthi area, 7 km from Hora.

Days / Hours of Operation
Summer schedule: daily 9:00- 13:00 and 17:30-21:30

Contact
Web site: www.syneti.8m.com

Maritime Museum of Andros
The Museum, along with the square and the statue of “the unsung Sailor” is a donation of the Goulandris family. It was inaugurated in 1972 and exhibits the navigational traditions of the island through instruments, maps, old marine contracts, lithographies and models of local ships.

Location / Access
At the end of the old town in Hora, in “Afanous Nafti” (“Unsung Sailor”) square.

Days / Hours of Operation
Summer schedule: daily, 8:00 – 22:00

Contact
Tel. 22820 22275
Fax. 22820 24166

Museum of Folklore and Christian Art
The old ice factory has been renovated to resemble a traditional urban house of Andros with its cellar. The upper level, which used to be an oil press, is dedicated to Christian art of Andros in the 18th and early 19th century. It is divided into sections of hagiography, Ecclesiastical goldware and silverware and wood carven chancel screens of the island’s churches.

Location / Access
In the entrance of Hora, in the yard of the hotel “Paradeisos”

Days / Hours of Operation
Summer schedule: weekends in July, daily in August

Contact
Tel. 22820 22189

Museum of Modern Art of the Vasilis and Eliza Goulandri Foundation
The Museum was inaugurated in 1979 to house and exhibit the collection of local sculptor Mihalis Tompros, which he donated to his hometown, as well as part of the Foundation’s collection, which includes works by important Greek artists (G. Zoggolopoulos, Sofia Vari, Takis, G. Gaitis et al.).
The museum was extended in 1986 with a new wing. During the summer period there are exhibitions by artists of international fame of the 20th century with illustrated catalogues, cards and posters, projections of small documentaries, guided tours and educational programmes.
Several exhibitions over the years have displayed the works of Wassily Kandinsky in 1989, Paul Klee in 1993, «Henry Moore: Under the Light of Greece» and in 2004 “Picasso and Greece” with works by the great Spaniard that reveal his influences by the aesthetics of Classic Greece. For the summer of 2007 an exhibition entitled “Andre Masson and ancient Greece” is scheduled. Masson is a French 20th century painter who was inspired by the Greek myths, tragedies and the worship of Dionysus.

Location / Access
In Hora on the road from Kairi square to Nimporios.

Days / Hours of Operation
Winter schedule: Saturday, Sunday, Monday, 10.00-14.00
Summer schedule: Open daily except Tuesdays, 10.00-14.00
During exhibitions: Monday-Saturday 10.00-14.00 & 18.00-20.00, Sunday 10.00-14.00 Closed on Tuesdays
In August and during the last week of the exhibition in September there are daily guided tours carried out by the Museum’s scientific personnel.

Contact
Tel. 22820 22444, 210 7252895
Fax  22820 22490, 210 7235467
Web site: www.moca-andros.gr
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