Aiane Archaeological Museum

Aiane Archaeological Museum is a museum in Aiane, Greece.

Although the museum was inaugurated in 1970, with a collection of antiquities of the ancient city but in 1983 a number of major additional finds meant that the museum had to be expanded considerably to house the new objects.The building of a new museum began in 1992 but was delayed by events such as an earthquake on 13 March 1995. After storage in various places including the town hall, the museum was eventually completed in 1997, but only two of the museums exhibition rooms opened in October 2002 [ [http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh152.jsp?obj_id=3386 Karamitrou-Mentesidi, G (archaeologist), "Hellenic Ministry of Culture"] Retrieved on May 7 2008] . Now located in a two-storey building, the Archaeological Museum of Aiane displays the history of ancient Aiane, capital of Elimiotis which was one of the most important kingdoms of Upper Macedonia. The museum comprises eight exhibition rooms but only two are open to the public, and it contains storerooms, offices, a library, a drawing studio, a multi-purpose exhibition/lecture hall, a guesthouse and conservation laboratories for metal and terracotta items. From 1995 until October 2002 the multi-purpose hall housed a collection of icons, texts, maps and copies of antiquities.

Important collections include finds of the Late Bronze Age (1500 -1200 BC) and the Archaic and Classical periods (600 -500 BC), which provide an important insight into the formation of the Doric-Macedonian peoples in the region and the civilian and political development of Aiane, particularly during the Sixth Century B.C.. [ [http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3386 Karamitrou-Mentesidi, G (archaeologist), "Hellenic Ministry of Culture"] Retrieved on May 7 2008] .

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* [http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3386 Hellenic ministry of culture]