Museum of Prehistoric Thera

Μουσείο Προϊστορικής Θήρας

Akrotiri's frescoes and golden ibex: the site's real treasures

⚠ Closed Tue · shuts 15:30

Hours

08:30–15:30, closed Tuesdays (official 2026 schedule)

Tickets

€10 full, €5 reduced (official 2026 rates)

Address

Opposite the Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral in Fira, about 3 minutes' walk from the bus station

A small museum holding what came out of Akrotiri. Wall paintings such as the Blue Monkeys and the Ladies hang here with their 3,600-year-old colours still bright, so if you saw only bare walls at the site, this is where it all clicks. Look out too for the jug painted with swallows, the clay tablets inscribed in Linear A, and a palm-sized golden ibex. It's small enough to see in an hour, and handy for filling time before a bus.