The exhibition at the new building of the Archaeological Museum of Mytilene is unfolding the everyday religious, economic and political life of the 3rd century. BC until the 4th c. A.D. The architecture of the building dictated the nature of the vulnerable subsoil and the strong terrain. The exhibition program was subordinated to the building’s architecture.

The exhibition halls, housed on two floors, consist of six halls with a permanent exhibition and two halls for periodical exhibitions. The way the spaces are structured led to the design of the permanent exhibition in three sections. In the three consecutive spaces on the ground floor were mosaic floors of Roman villas, while in the semi-basement were placed samples of Lesvos sculpture (embossments, portraits, holograms). In the halls of the periodic exhibition, there are exhibits that refer to Roman symposia.

The mosaic floors of a Roman villa of the 3rd c. AD, with the conventional name “Menandros House”, which was the seat of an association of people in the theater.

In the new building there are educational activities, aimed at pupils of Primary schools and Gymnasiums, painting exhibitions, lectures and seminars.

Author
Aglaia Archontidou – Argyris, Honorary Officer of Antiquities