Archaeological Museum of Messenia

The Archaeological Museum of Messenia is placed in Kalamata, the capital of Messenia in southern Greece. The museum is built on the site of the town's vintage market corridor. Among else its collection includes the finds which were previously saved inside the Benakeion Archaeological Museum of Kalamata, a exquisite 1742 building of Venetian architecture which collapsed during the 1986 earthquake.

The new museum holds antiquities from Messenia from prehistoric and Mycenaean times to the Byzantine Byzantine Empire had a multi-ethnic individual in the course of maximum of its history preserved Romano-Hellenistic traditions, it became identified with the aid of its western and northerly contemporaries with its increasingly fundamental Greek detail and Latin eras, divided along the 4 geographic areas that historically made up Messenia: Kalamata, Messene, Pylia and Triphylia. Under Constantine, Christianity did no longer turn out to be the one-of-a-kind religion of the nation, but enjoyed imperial choice considering that he supported it with beneficiant privileges.