Landmark· Paxos· Greece — Ionian, Saronic & Argolic

Paxos Museum (Gaios)

39° 11.8′ N · 20° 11.2′ E

A small folk museum in a 1905 neoclassical school endowed by Andreas Syngros. It holds Venetian pistols, prehistoric finds, olive-oil and household tools, a reconstructed traditional Paxiot bedroom, and the Ionian Parliament's 1864 vote for union with Greece.

Ionian IslandsSaronic Gulf & Argolic

Practical

Open since 1996 (Greek Wikipedia). Paxos Map lists the museum phone as +30 26620 32256. Hours are seasonal and not published in these sources, so call ahead. It is a 2-minute walk from the quay, and nearby you can see the 19th-century public cisterns of Agioi Anargyroi and Agioi Apostoloi and the statue of the 1821 revolutionary sailor George Anemogiannis.

Best for

A rainy-day or midday-heat hour ashore in Gaios

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