The Archaeological Museum of Andros was built in 1981 with plans by the architect Stamos Papadakis and with the sponsorship of the Vassilis and Elizas Goulandris Foundation. The exhibits of the museum offer a panoramic view of the history of the island starting with findings from the geometric
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The Archaeological Museum of Paleopolis Andros was inaugurated in 2003 and is dedicated to the antiquities of Paleopolis, with a special emphasis on the classical city, which was the capital of the island for twelve centuries. With the use of modern presentation methods, a variety of findings
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The Cycladic Olive Museum in Andros consists of two old olive mills of the island, the Helmi olive mill in Pitrofos and the Lembesi olive mill in Remata. The facilities have been restored and turned into museum spaces. In them, the visitor can observe the technologies of olive oil production and
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(TEL. 22820 22262) The Kaireios library was founded in 1987. It is located in Chora of Andros, in Kairi Square. It is housed in a building granted for this purpose by the Kampani family. It includes the personal book collection of Theophilos Kairis, the great representative of the Neo-Hellenic
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The exhibits of the Museum of Folklore and Christian Art in Chora of Andros are divided into three sections: "The Manly House", with exhibits about daily life in a traditional house of the island, "Andriot products and professions", as well as the section which includes icons, works of
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The museum was inaugurated in 1979, on the occasion of the exhibition of the works of Andriotic sculptor Michalis Tombrou. Afterwards, the exhibits were enriched with part of the Foundation's collection, which consists of more than 300 works by distinguished Greek and foreign artists. This first
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It was founded in the year 1972 and the most important of its exhibits are old charters, insurance contracts, various nautical diaries, which describe the life of the Andriotians on the ships before the 1821 Race, lithographs of Andriotian ships and the later first steam-powered cargo ships of
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The branch of the Kairis Library "Michael E. Kydonieos House" originally belonged to the family of Michael E. Kydonieos. It is a two-story neoclassical building in Chora of Andros, built around 1920. The Library initially bought the first floor of the building and in 2002 the ground floor. It houses
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(TEL. 22820 24598) The Petrou and Marika Kydonieos Foundation (Technochoros) was founded in 1994 and is housed in Chora of Andros, on Kairi Street. The purpose of the institution is the presentation of visual, literary, theatrical and musical events. In 1995, the particularly important annual
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