Kefalonia Museum

The Archaeological Museum of Argostoli, additionally referred to as the Kefalonia Museum is a museum in Argostoli, Greece, positioned some blocks south of the plateia, throughout from the Municipal Theater on R. Vergoti. It includes antiquities determined on the island of Kefalonia, starting from the prehistoric to the Roman intervals. The antique museum was destroyed by way of an earthquake in 1953. The contemporary building was built in 1960. And designed by the famous architect Patroklos Karantinos.

The museum incorporates an intensive collection of Mycenaean artifacts. These consist of excavations on the Mycenaean cemetery of Lakkithra which includes a Mycenaean kylix relationship from the 12th century B.C., that's a conical cup, adorned with pass-hatched triangles and a gold necklace from crafted from pairs of gold spirals and intentionally twisted, also dating to the 12th century B.C. Notable unearths on the cemetery of Diakata also dating lower back to the 12th century B.C.

Consist of a bronze fibula that's a bow shaped as a row of 8-figured loops and a massive, handled krater which has a low foot and is decorated with panelled reasons between the handles. The museum also capabilities many different items of pottery and jewellery from excavations around the island and Melissani Lake. It also carries some 3rd-century BC tombstones, a 2nd-century BC mosaic from the temple of Poseidon and archived photos of an 1899 excavation at Sami.