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Lefkada Monuments Museums & Archeological Areas |
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Museums, Historical Areas, Monuments
Archaeological Museum of Lefkada - The Archaeological Museum has been lodged in the cultural center of Lefkada since 1999. If you visit it, you will see discoveries from the middle Paleolithic period (200.000 - 35.000 B.C.) until the later Roman years. The museum consists of four chambers. In chamber A there are exhibits on the subject of the public and private life of the residents during the historical years. Specifically, a topography of the ancient city, private residences, olive - oil, textile, wine, trade, minting, music and more. The bronze garden keys that were found in ancient graves have particular interest, as well as a carapace and the osseous keys of an ancient lyre with its enactment. In chamber B, you can enjoy an oblation to the deities of the island where there are some clay figurines and tiles that personate deities accompanied by texts of ancient philological testimonies. Moreover, the representation of the abduction of Europe from Zeus, who had been transformed to a bull, is found in this room on a seal ring from the classic years. Chamber C is dedicated to the burial customs of Lefkada. You can see sepulchral columns, stone urns, various precious gifts for the dead and ballots from excavations in the ancient city’s cemetery. There is also the enactment of a part of the ancient cemetery. Chamber D is a separate room dedicated to the German archaeologist and philellenist William Dorpfeld. Dorpfeld believed that Lefkada was Homer’s Ithaca in the Odyssey, although it was never proven. In this chamber Dorpfeld’s discoveries that are being exhibited are stone tools from the middle Paleolithic period, with the peaks of javelins and one semi finished hand ax. In the part of the Neolithic period you can find vessels and shells of various ceramic style, earthen figurines and stone tools such as axes, peaks of arrows, scales and blades. In the part of the Copper period you can find cupreous tools, weapons, vessels, stone tools and representations of jewels from the tombs of the First Hellenic period and from graves from the Middle Hellenic period. The discoveries of the Archaeological museum are from ancient Nirikos, Nidri, Hirospilia in Evgiros, Meganisi and the cave in Frini.
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Ellomeneio Museum of Greek Musical Instruments – It is located in the village of Neochori. It was founded with the initiative of Mr. Panagiotis Tsatsoulas. The building that is housed is an old oil press that was changed into a notable reception area. Many traditional objects of folklore art, agricultural tools and unique musical instruments are being exhibited in the museum.
In a new two floors building, located in the yard of the Monastery, suitable exhibition areas have been formed where various objects of ecclesiastic art are exhibited. The works of Heptanesian and Lefkadite painters are the main volume of the exhibits. The exhibits are mainly post byzantine portable pictures and church objects (despotic icons, epistyle and door panels). The various ecclesiastical manuscripts and old text from the monastery’s library with rare and old publications of Greek and foreigner typographers from the pre revolutionary and revolutionary years are particularly interesting. The various silver exhibits mainly holy crosses, communion cups, vigil candles, trays, lining of pictures and Gospels, are also notable. Finally, an important part of the exhibits are the various vestments and elements of prelatical uniforms, as well as a unique series of altar cloths that date back in the 18th -19th centuries. |
