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Samos
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Museums
 The Archaeological Museum
at Samos town is housing what is considered to be one of the finest collections outside Athens and Thessalonica. The Museum is housed in two buildings one neoclassical and one modern and it is regarded as one of the most interesting provincial museums in Greece. The exhibits include:
Prehistoric vessels,
A cluster of statues (five female and one male) by Samian sculptor Geneleo, as a votive offering to the Hereon dated 560-540 B.C,
The largest Kouros statue in the world (5.5 m tall) dated to the first quarter of 6th Century B.C.,
Interesting sculptures from the Hellenistic period,
Female statutes of enormous size,
Findings from Hereon (ivory and wood artefacts, geometric and archaic pottery),
A collection of bronze objects,
Bronze votive offerings from Egypt and Persia and
Clay statuettes from Cyprus and Samos.
 An impressive collection of statues and other ancient artefacts found during excavations at Pythagoreio, are also housed today at the Archaeological Museum of Samos.
 The Palaeontological Museum
at the village of Mytilinioi with unique exhibits of prehistoric remains of bones of animals, which lived 8 millions years ago in this place. They were found in the nearby valley of Stefanidi.
 The Archaeological Collection of Pythagoreion
has been housed at the ground floor of the Town Hall, since the beginning of the 20th century. The building was restored after World War II and in 1993 some interventions were carried out to the east façade. However the construction of the Pythagoreion Archaeological Museum has now commenced. The collection includes:
Archaic steles,
Portraits of Roman emperors,
Relief funeral banquets and
Pottery spanning the 9th to the 2nd centuries B.C.
The Byzantine-Ecclesiastical Museum
The Folklore Museum at Karlovasi
was inaugurated in 1994. The exhibits relate to the period of 1870 – 1955 and represent agricultural and urban folklore artefacts.
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