Archaeological Museum Cultural Center of Gytheion

The museum was housed in the old Town Hall, which was rebuilt in 1891, until 1996, and now transferred to the restored old Girls' School, a neo-classical building. The original collection was established 80 years ago, with contributions of local antiquarians, and organised in 1980.
It includes representative works of the flourishing trading city of Gytheion and the other cites of the League of the Eleutherolakones:
•Finds from excavations, collections and gifts, from the ancient city of Gytheion.
•Finds from field surveys in Lakonian Mani (areas of Gytheion and Oitylon)
•Collection of inscriptions with important documents concerning the political and social history of the area during the Roman conquest.
A Stele crowned with a ram's head from the ancient city of Las (modern Chosiari, Mani) is a zoomorphic representation of god Karneios (Apollo), Archaic period.
Fragment of a relief, of the type called "Lakonian hero reliefs" with an enthroned figure and a standing worshipper from the ancient city of Las and dates to the Archaic period.
Rectangular plaque with an inscription on the cymation reading "to Aphrodite, crowned with violets". It was found at Dichova, in Mani, where there was a sanctuary, probably of Aphrodite. Dated to the Archaic period.
Votive relief, dedicated to a healer god (Machaon ?) from ancient Kaine polis or Tainarioi city (modern villages of Alika and Kyparissos, in Mani). Dated to the Late Hellenistic period (3rd c BC).
Portrait of the philosopher Epicure, A Roman period copy of a work dated to the 4th century BC.
Statue of the dynamic Spartan epistates "hegemon" Gaius Julius Eurykles, represented as Hermes. On the base there is a bilingual inscription in Greek and Latin. It was dedicated by favoured Roman merchants and bankers of the Lakonian coast. It was found in the city of Gytheion, between the ancient theatre and the Agora.
Sarcophagi with various representations in remarkable thematic unity which attests the high financial status of a certain group of the ancient society in Gytheion and Eleutherolakonia. Dated to the Roman period.
Sacred Law, refers to the festivals of Gytheion: the Kaisareia, in honour of Julii emperors and the Eurykleia, in honour of Gaius Julius Eurykles and his son. It was found at Gytheion dated AD 15.
Funerary epigram possibly referring to the invasion of the Goths in AD 269. The deceased young warrior who sinks in the sea recalls the great times of Hellenism, with which he combines his own struggles against the coming barbarism.
Bust of an unknown lady of Gytheion, 4th century AD with inset eyes.
Larger than life head, probably of Emperor Constantine the Great (AD 307-337), in symbolic representation of the deified Sol Invictus. A little before AD 312, Tetrarchy. gtp.gr/TDirectoryDetails.asp?ID=6241