Museo Archeologico di Pithecusae

The museum houses more than a thousand exhibits, whose most important part is made from materials that give testimony of Pithecusae, founded in the second quarter of the eighth century BC Greeks from the island of Euboea. This greek allocation has played a major role in the birth of civilization of Ancient Greece. Pithecusae was indeed a thriving trading center especially for ceramic and metallurgical products, also played a key role in spreading knowledge of alphabetic writing at the emerging population of the Italian peninsula. Our knowledge of Pithecusae is based on the extraordinary discoveries of George Buchner (Monaco of Bavaria, August 8, 1914 - Ischia, February 4, 2005), the great German archaeologist but Italian by adoption, who devoted his entire life to the study and research of Pithecusae.