THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

The Archaeological Museum is in a traditional mansion. There, one can see, examples of prehistoric ceramics, clay idols from Thermi, archaic vessels from Antissa, terracottas from Pyrra and gold coins from the area of Messoi.

In the courtyard are found Aeolian capitals from the temple of Apollo at Klopedi, the marble throne of the orator Potamon, small sacrificial altars and other objects.

In the basements of the mansion there is a multitude of finds dating to the middle of the 4th millennium B.C. A new archaeological museum has been created in the area of Kioski, Mytilene, with lavish exhibits that stretch from the Archaic to the Roman period.

THE BYZANTINE ECCLESIASTICAL MUSEUM

The Byzantine Ecclesiastical Museum that is located opposite St. Therapon contains many notable icons and other items which have been used in the course of Christian worship and testify the artistic talent of creators who tried to express the purity of Christian feeling.

There are vestments embroidered with pearls, sections of fine iconostases from old churches, manuscripts and religious books. Superb Roman mosaics lie under the Byzantine Ecclesiastical Museum.


THE FOLK ART MUSEUM

The folk art museum is housed in the former Harbor - Master's building. This museum contains a wide variety of exhibits as clay pots, old water jugs from Ayiassos and Mantamados and plates painted with scenes from everyday life as it was lived in the past and other exhibits which exemplify the island's popular art and illustrate its past.

THE THEOPHILOS MUSEUM

The building has five rooms and houses 86 works by the Lesvos folk painter, who was called "tsolias" because he always wore the Greek national dress.

Some of the most famous works in the museum are those showing the Limnian shepherd, the bay of Yera, the Fisherman's dance, and e.t.c.

THE TERIAD MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

The Teriad Museum and Library is a large building with specially designed spaces. Sixteen of the twenty rooms have been set aside for a permanent exhibition of Teriad's 29 books. Among the exhibits are five books illustrated by Chagall: Gogol's "Dead Souls", the Bible, La Fontaine's "Fables", "The Circus" and Longu's "Daphnis and Chloe".

There are three books with Greek themes: Theocritus' "Idylls", Lucius and the Ass" and the "Dialogues" of Lucian. The Hesiod's "Works and Days", Pierre Reverdu's "Song of the Dead" illustrated by Picasso, Fernand Leger's "The Circus", Matisse's "Poem of the Right Angle" and "Paris without end" with a text and fifty lithographs by the great sculptor Giacometti.

The other rooms contain some issues of Teriad's magazines "Minotaure" and "Verne" while three rooms on the ground floor contain forty paintings by the great Yannis Tsarouchis.