24002, Ancient Messini
Tel.: +30 27240 51201
Fax: +30 27240 51218
Email: [email protected]
www.yppo.gr
Hours: daily 08:30 to 20:30, Monday 14:00 to 20:30
Public holidays: January 1, December 25 & 26, March 25, Easter Sunday, May 1
Guided tours (individual / group): After consultation with tour guides
Cost of tours: By prior arrangement with tour guides

24600, Chora, Messinia
Tel.: +30 27630 31358
Fax: +30 27630 29790
Email: [email protected]
www.yppo.gr
Hours: daily 8:30 to 15:00, closed Mondays
Public holidays: January 1, December 25 & 26, March 25, Easter Sunday, May 1
Guided tours (individual / group): By prior arrangement with tour guides
Cost of guided tours: By prior arrangement with tour guides

The Archaeological Museum of Pylos contains archaeological findings from the region of Pylia: the first room features exhibits belonging to the Mycenaean age or even older, and the second exhibits belonging to the Archaic, Hellenistic and Roman periods. The most important exhibits are: the fine gold bands, a seal, two necklaces, and a burial jar (found in a tholos tomb in Koukounara, in the area of Paleochoria). A rare exhibit is the lining of a warrior’s helmet made of boar's teeth. One such helmet is kept here, and another one in the Museum of Nafplion, and it is considered to be a common feature of the soldier-warrior of the Achaeans. Also, three glass vases and the large astragalus from the Hellenistic tomb of Tragana.

24001, Pylos, Messinia
Tel.: +30 27230 22448
Fax: +30 27230 22448
Email: [email protected]
www.yppo.gr
Hours: summer & winter 08:30 to 15:00 daily, except Monday
Public holidays: January 1, December 25 & 26, March 25, Easter Sunday, May 1
Guided tours (individual / group): By prior arrangement with tour guides
Cost of tours: By prior arrangement with tour guides

The museum is located at the heart of the historic center of Kalamata, where the municipal market of the city used to be, a place that was bustling with merchants and shoppers every day. Following the disastrous earthquake in 1986, the market building was demolished, as it had been severely damaged. The building that replaced it was given by the Municipality of Kalamata to the Ministry of Culture in order to become an Archaeological Museum. The Archaeological Museum of Messinia organizes educational activities for the general public.

Benaki and Ag. Ioannou str. (historical center)
24100, Kalamata
Tel.: +30 27210 83485
Fax: +30 27210 26209
Email: [email protected]
www.archmusmes.gr

Hours: daily 08:00 to 20:00
Public holidays: January 1, December 25 & 26, March 25, Easter Sunday, May 1
Guided tours (individual / group): By prior arrangement with tour guides
Cost of tours: By prior arrangement with tour guides

In the heart of the historical center, the museum is accommodated in a beautiful residence of Venetian style built in 1742, donated by Antonios Benakis, founder of the homonymous Museum in Athens. The most important exhibits include a mosaic from Koroni with scenes from the worship of Dionysus, tomb stelae, sculptures of Hellenistic and Roman times, pillar-heads, discoveries from tholos tombs, jewels and stone objects from many regions of Messinia, and exhibited in the garden of the museum, a stone sarcophagus and two burial jars.

6 Papazoglou str.
24100, Kalamata Tel.: +30 27210 63100

Hours: daily 8:00 to 14:30, Mondays closed

In the heart of the historical center, this small, well-arranged museum was founded by the Society for the Diffusion of Literature and it operates in a listed building, which was donated to the Municipality of Kalamata by the Kyriakou family. It exhibits personal objects of heroes Theodoros Kolokotronis and Petrobeis Mavromichalis, as well as artifacts relating to the history of olive oil production, soap manufacturing, viticulture, wood-sculpture, textile, clay work and so on. There is also a corner of an urban house of the beginning of the 20th century and displays of traditional costumes. The sections dedicated to typography, bookbinding and ecclesiastical art are of great interest.

Ag. Ioannou and 12 Kyriakou str.
24100, Kalamata
Tel.: +30 27210 28449
Fax: +30 27210 28774
Monday: closed, Tuesday-Saturday: 09:00 - 13:00, Sunday: 10:00-13:00
Holidays: decided by the Board
Students / schools: free admission
Retired persons (65 years and older): reduced admission

The museum has been operating since June 2006 in a building donated for this purpose by the Holy Metropolis of Messinia. It aims to the presentation of modern Greek history from the Revolution of 1821 to our days, through texts, photographs and audiovisual material. The tour begins with the exhibits of uniforms, and military and photographic material from the Revolution of 1821, and continues with the Macedonian Struggle, with special reference to the Messinian warriors who participated in it, and the Balkan Wars (among the exhibits there are spoils of the enemies). A large section of the Museum is dedicated to the Asia Minor Holocaust. There are also tributes to the First and Second World War, the battles in Ochira and Crete, the Middle East and the National Resistance. There is also reference to the peacekeeping operations of the Greek Army (Korea, Somalia, Yugoslavia, Gulf War, and Afghanistan). In the specially adapted "Sound and Light" room, a film on the history of the 9th Infantry Regiment is shown. The book of Messinians who fell during the national struggles from 1897 to 1974 is also an important exhibit. In the courtyard of the museum one can see a tank M48-A5, an M8 armored vehicle, guns and an aircraft F-5.

10 Mitropolitou Meletiou str.
24100, Kalamata
Tel.: +30 27210 21219
Fax: +30 27210 21219
Monday: closed, Tuesday-Saturday: 09:00 - 14:00, Wednesday: 18:00 to 20:00, Sunday: 11:00 to 14:00
Public holidays: January 1, December 25 & 26, March 25, Easter Sunday, May 1
Admission: free
Guided tours (individual / group): Yes, by the Museum's personnel
Guided Tour Cost: free