After 30 years of excavations, the French School of Athens needed a museum for all its discoveries on Delos, and this was inaugurated in 1904. The archaeological digs have continued for more than 145 years, and the museum had to be expanded in 1931 and 1972 to accommodate all of this material.
The oldest pieces here are the ceramics, going back more than 3,500 years.
There are also numerous grave statues and stele from the 7th to the 1st century BC, as well as clay figurines, mosaics, jewelry, and everyday items from the Hellenistic Period.
Among the must-sees is a bronze mask of Dionysos from the 2nd century BC, an ivory plaque with a relief of a Mycenaean warrior as old as 1400 BC, and a magisterial sculpture of Boreas kidnapping Oreithya from the end of the 5th century BC.
