The new museum mapping Thessaloniki’s buried past

[Alexandros Avramidis/Intime News]

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis connected Saturday inaugurated a caller depository successful Thessaloniki, dedicated to archaeological remains uncovered during the agelong excavations for the city’s metro project.

Housed successful the erstwhile service gathering wrong the Pavlos Melas Metropolitan Park, the “Thessalonikeon Mitropolis” depository displays sectors of the past city, architectural remains, pottery and objects spanning respective humanities periods. The accumulation traces however operation of the modern metro enactment passed done layers of the bluish larboard city’s Roman and Byzantine municipality fabric.

Mitsotakis said the authorities was “creating a unique halfway of civilization and recreation” successful western Thessaloniki and “showcasing areas that for decades remained extracurricular the tract of vision of the cardinal government.”

The depository opens to the nationalist connected Sunday. Visiting hours are typically 8.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. It is closed connected Tuesdays. The museum’s stated ngo is conservation and nationalist acquisition done artifacts recovered during the metro excavations.