Every place deserves to have its own museum, be it a spacious facility with plenty of room or just one of more limited proportions. Even the latter can be of historical importance and host significant objects. This is exactly the case with the archaeological collection of Amorgos: gathered together in a limited space, it yet constitutes a most representative and irrefutable witness to the long history of the island, from Geometric times (8th century BC) to the late Roman (2nd century AD). Though lacking in a multitude of discoveries from excavations, the surface finds made in the three cities of Minoas, Arkesini and Aegiali worthily fill the archaeological gap with material that testifies to the sculptural tradition of Amorgos, but also to those historical moments deemed appropriate by its inhabitants to be engraved in stone as a record.

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