After years of being in the shadow of most other Greek destinations, Sparta will soon acquire its brand-new archeological museum – which it deserves. With a budget exceeding 2,750,000 euros – and the addition of parameters related mainly to the points of contact between the surrounding area and the building – the museum’s final design has been modified to provide its guests with the most thrilling experience possible.
In this modern architectural approach, emphasis was placed on the preservation and promotion of the main façade of the building, a monument of the industrial complex of HYMOFIX, which preserves the principles of the building’s design original design by architect Takis Zanneto. At the same time, the preservation – and the best possible view of the antiquities revealed by the excavation research – has been achieved due to the renovated contours of the basement of the new building.
The New Archaeological Museum of Sparta, in combination with the modernisation of the existing cultural infrastructure, further enhances the cultural identity of the city by highlighting – now in the most modern way – its significant cultural heritage while contributing to the promotion and consolidation of a new, sustainable development model for Laconia.
In the context of the excavation research carried out in the basement of the New Museum, several important architectural relics came to light, including a construction with a series of rectangular and square bases, which must have belonged to an important public building of ancient Sparta. The New Archaeological Museum is located within the city’s archaeological site, on a plot of more than 20 acres wide.
