CHAIRONEIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM (Code: )

The Museum building
The Archaeological Museum of Chaironeia was constructed between 1903 and 1907, at the expenses of the Archaeological Society at Athens, just beside the Lion funerary monument (“Lion of Chaironeia”), which is today restored. The Museum was built to house the finds from the  first excavations (1903-1907) conducted by the Archaeological Society at Athens under the direction of archaeologist Georgios Soteriadis at  the mass grave of the Macedonians who fell in the battle of 338 BC, and at a series of sites dating to the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the valley of the Boeotian Kephisos river. The building suffered serious damage in the 1981 earthquakes, and was closed to the public in 1995 for repairs and upgrading of its infrastructure. Oversight for realization of the project “Building and Electro-mechanical works for the repair- reinforcement of the Archaeological Museum of Chaironeia - Re-exhibition”, which was included in the Third Community Support Framework  and funded by the Central Greece Regional Operational Programme (ROP), was assumed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s Directorate  of Technical Works Conduction in Museums and Cultural Buildings. The organization of the new exhibition (sub-project “Re-exhibition in the Museum of Chaironeia”) was carried  out directly by the 9th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, in the period from 2004-2009.