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NEAPOLIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

Southeastern Peloponnese, Greece

The permanent exhibition’s primary objective

is to unveil the strong influence of the landscape

on human activities and habitation

through the course of time.

The archaeological museum is situated

in a small town by the sea, near Monemvasia.

It’s permanent exhibition hosts artefacts

from the nearby archaeological sites,

that come from a vast chronological era,

from prehistoric to roman times.

The main aim of the exhibition

is to present the almost unknown story of this region

to a greater audience, in a vivid yet simple way,

sheading light to the region’s interesting landscapes,

the only unaltered element,

yet a crucial factor of shaping history and human activities through time.

Visitors are encouraged to follow a traveller’ s path,

whose identity is revealed only at the end of the exhibition,

as a narrative trick: he is the famous Pausanias.

One can find the archaeological sites’ exhibits in groups,

like travelling on the area’s map,

trying to think about the life of its ancient residents.

To do that, the exhibition design used two major tools.

The first is a raised wooden floor, where sites Pausanias did see

are presented in a lower level (roman times),

whereas those unknown to him (prehistoric times)

are presented “inside” the wooden floor,

which often curves, to form benches and showcases.

The second tool is the use of contemporary photography

and the use of color in special handmade traditional textures.

Using big scale, high resolution photos of inaccessible sites of the region,

we created an effect of “almost being there”.

The use of colors one can find in nature and the local villages,

marks the coast, hinterland and urban relics,

bring the landscape feeling inside the museum.

The shaping of a small museum shop, a room for various activities,

storage rooms and a modern conservation laboratory

were also part of the project.

The museum belongs to the Greek Ministry of Culture

and was co-funded by the European Union.

PROJECT DATA

DESIGN – CONSTRUCTION
2008 – 2015

COLLABORATORS
Anna Kallinikidou,
archaeologist-museologist

Nikoletta Palaiologou
archaeologist-museologist

Chryssi Nikoloutsou, architect

Artemis Kopsida, architect

and

the archaeologists

of the 5th Clasical and Prehistoric Antiquites

of the Greek Ministry of Culture

Special thanks go to

Mrs Adamantia Vasilogramvrou

ex-director of the 5th Ephorate

for her trust in our work.

SURFACE
280m²

BUDGET
930.000€

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Southeastern Peloponnese, Greece

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