Museum Keramikos Museum

We invite you to take a tour of the Keramikos Museum!

It was built in 1937 according to the drawings of architect Johannes and funded by German-American entrepreneur and philanthropist Gustav Oberlander. Later, thanks to the financial support of the Bering brothers, the museum building expanded its space in the 1960s.

The museum exhibits finds from excavations in the Keramikos area, mostly objects directly related to the existence of the city cemetery in this place and the performance of appropriate rituals: funeral urns, things placed in the grave with the deceased, tombstone steles. The latter, such as the inscribed relief lutrophors (a distinctive type of Greek pottery with a distinctive elongated neck for storing water during wedding and funeral ceremonies; they were also placed in the tombs of unmarried women), as they dominate the exhibition, and more often than other items are found during excavations throughout the Keramikos area.

To ensure that your understanding of the ancient life of this area is as complete as possible, first visit the archaeological area around the Keramikos Museum, and then enter its halls.