Archaeological Museum of Corfu, Corfu

The Archeological Museum building is relatively new. It was built in 1965 on land donated by the City of Corfu. Originally, it was meant to house artifacts found among the remains of the ancient Temple of Artemis.

The museum is s two-story Art Deco modernist building in Corfu. In 1994 rooms were added to house the growing collections from within the bounds of Corfu. The museum has artifacts from the Kerkyraean Cassiope section of the island and excavation finds from Bronze Age Thesprotia (part of the proto-Greek region in the late Bronze Age).

The exhibits present the Borgo pediment from 590 BC; the Lion of Menecrates, from the cenotaph of Menecrates, 7th century BC; a head of a youth of Kerkyraean poros from 6th century BC; a Laconian bronze figure of a running party-goer; a marble torso of Apollo, 2nd century AD; urns with coins and a torso of another youth of 525 BC.

There is a funerary stele that reads: "Greetings Philistion. You went twenty-three years old in the underworld and left your mother Arpalis in mourning, your husband Aristandros widower and confused, and the children cold as orphans. You,....having chosen for yourself the last sleep, this bitter, pitch-dark tomb has accepted you."