Patras Archaeological Museum

Patras Archaeological Museum

The New Archaeological Museum of Patras is located in Patras,Greece. Built on a 28,000-square-meters, with 8,000 square meters of interior spaces, it is the second-largest museum of Greece. Inside the museum there are artifacts about the history of Patras and the surrounding area from prehistory to the end of Roman times. The museum was designed by the architect Mr. Theofanis Bobotis with an original cost of 21.5 million euros that ended up at a total of 25 million. In the same place, there's also a part of one of the biggest mosaic collections Greece, consisting of 14 Roman mosaics covering a total of 250 square meters, vast majority of which are vertically placed. Most of these mosaics were discovered in ruins of luxurious urban residences in the city of Patras.