After many years of collective efforts and the support of agencies and services, the Archaeological Museum of Tilos will be opened on Saturday, July 27, at 11:30 a.m. by the Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, and the Governor of the South Aegean, Giorgos Chatzimarkos. .
As stated in the corresponding announcement of the Ephorate of Antiquities (EFA) Dodecanese, the visitor has the opportunity to browse to recognize the multilevel research carried out with the help of scientists and technicians in the halls of the modern museum and at all stages of its implementation, from initial design to completion.
The report is divided into five parts, arranged in an equal number of rooms and covering the island’s extensive periods of habitation: the Late Bronze Age (1600-1500 BC), the Classical and Hellenistic periods (1050-1st century BC), the Late Antiquity, Byzantine and Knight period and Post-Byzantine years. Ceramic cups from the earliest phase of the Late Bronze Age (1600-1500) from the site “Garipa” southwest of Megalo Chorio, vases from the same period from the site “Lakkia”, handed over by the former mayor. island, Gregorio Kamma, Inscription from Asclepion of Cos, 4th century with the Tilian oath. BC, gifts from the tombs of ancient necropolises and occasional excavated finds, tombstones and statues are just some of the exhibits of the Collection, testifying to the intervention of the Koos magistrates to resolve some political crisis on Tilos.
Late Antiquity and the conversion to Christianity are represented by coins and architectural elements from the island’s early Byzantine basilicas, while the Byzantine, Chivalric, and Post-Byzantine periods are represented by coins, church vessels, and portable icons borrowed from St. The metropolises of Symi, Tilos, Chalkis and Kastellorizou, as well as the Muslim farm donated by Nikolaos Kamma.
The inspiration for the creation of the museum was the public teacher Apostolos Logothetis already in the 70s, and the project was carried out in 2014 after the donation of the plot by the Holy Metropolis of Symi, Tilos, Halkis and Kastellorizos, with a total budget of 2,565,730.95 euros, jointly by the Municipality of Tilos and the South Aegean Region. support contributing to its inclusion in the funded “South Aegean 2014-2020” NSRF program. The design and construction of the building was carried out by the Dodecanese New Monuments and Technical Works Service.
The permanent exhibition was also designed and implemented by the Dodecanese Antiquities Ephorate, the Museum’s operating body.