Olympia Museum

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Olympia Museum Description

The Museum at Olympia contains a large collection of bronzes, pottery and sculpture. The excavations in the Stadion in recent decades have proved extraordinarily productive, yielding many works which had originally been set up along the embankments. The forecourt of the museum, surrounded by concrete colonnades, gives a foretaste of what is to be seen inside.

The rooms are laid out round a central hall containing the pediment sculpture and metopes from the temple of Zeus. In the entrance hall (sale of tickets, literature, postcards and slides) is an interesting model of ancient Olympia.

Among exhibits in the last room are items of sporting equipment (jumpers' weights, strigils, etc.).

Hobbies & Activities category: Archeological exhibit, museum; Glass, porcelain, pottery exhibit; Sports activity or museum; Standalone sculpture, statue or fountain

Olympia Museum Highlights

Bronze Collection

Room I contains bronzes of the Geometric and Archaic periods (ninth-sixth century B.C.), including elements from tripods, figures of horses, weapons and small bronzes.

Room II contains more

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Statues

In Room III are the treasuries of Gela, with the painted terra-cotta facing of the geison (ca. 560 B.C.), and Megara (ca. 510 B.C.).

In Room V is a statue of Hermes with the boy Dionysos which is

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Address

Olympia Archaeologica Museum
Olympia
Greece

Hours

May 1 to October 14

Open	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
Closed	19:00	19:00	19:00	19:00	19:00	19:00	19:00

November 1 to March 31

Open	10:30	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:30	8:30
Closed	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	15:00	15:00

Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1) Greek National Day (March 25) Good Friday - Christian Easter - Christian May Day / Labor Day (May 1) Christmas - Christian (December 25) Day after Christmas, St Stephen's Day, Boxing Day (December 26)