A new archaeological museum for Pylos, SW Peloponnese, will be inaugurated on Saturday evening in the Maison building, within the 16th-century fortress of Niokastro (“new castle”), to house the ever-expanding collection of antiquities from the area of Messinia, ANA reports.
In an announcement on Thursday, the Ministry of Culture noted that the inauguration will take place at 7:30 p.m. on August 25 by Deputy Minister Constantinos Stratis.
The new Archaeological Museum of Pylos builds upon the collection of the current archaeological museum, which includes objects from the Palace of Nestor as well. The new and expanded exhibits will be housed at the building constructed under French general Nicolas-Joseph Maison, after the 1827 defeat of the joint Ottoman-Egyptian forces by the British, French and Russian forces at the Battle of Navarino, as modern Pylos used to be called.
More information is available mostly in Greek at the site under construction, www.pylos-museum.gr.
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