The island’s own modest but engaging archaeological museum has artifacts recovered from Mykonos and adjacent islands, dating from prehistory to the end of the Hellenistic Period around the 1st century BC. In the large collection of ceramics is a pathos (jar) from the 7th century BC with reliefs depicting the capture of Troy.
There’s also exceptionally old Cycladic patterned pottery from as long ago as 2800 BC, preserved funerary steles from the island of Rineia off Delos, and black vases from the Ionian Islands. Another outstanding piece is a statue of Heracles wielding a club, also from Rineia, and fashioned from the finest Parian marble in the 2nd Century BC.
