Ouzo Museum Barbayannis
The Ouzo Museum is located next to the modern, privately-owned distilleries of the Barbayannis ouzo production facilities.In the museum visitors can see the original equipment used to bottle and label the famous Ouzo Barbayanni Blue, as well as the first alembic, constructed in 1858 in Constantinople, used for testing century-old secrets and techniques, and to compose the recipes of the Barbayannis family. The Ouzo Museum respectfully embraces tradition and is the home of the secret of the quality and taste found in Ouzo Barbayanni.
The Ecclesiastical Byzantine Museum
This museum has operated since 1978 in a private building in the center of town, just opposite the entrance to the church of Agios Therapon. Among its exhibits is a collection of portable icons spanning more than seven centuries, the oldest of which date from the 13th century.
The Museum of Modern Art Eleftheriadis Tériade
The Museum and Library are housed in the same building as the Theophilos Museum. Sixteen of its 20 rooms display the 29 books by the prominent art critic and publisher Eleftheriadis-Tériade, with illustrations by famous 20th century artists such as Picasso, Chagall, Villon, Leger, Matisse, and others. Each room has a showcase containing one of his books, intact. The surrounding walls display most of the book’s plates and pages, as well as paintings by the renowned Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis.
Natural History Collection Brisas
Brisas natural history collection includes fossils of vertebrates and invertebrates found in the area, mineral samples, rocks and ores of Lesvos, Department of Zoology with representative species of the fauna of the island, as well as Department of Botany with contemporary and fossilized specimens of flora in the same region.
Some of these fossils were selected to create the report of fossil vertebrates, which organized so that the visitor can acquire a general impression of the species of animals that lived in the area before 2 million years ago
Georgios Iakovidis Digital Museum
The first difital art museum in Greece, located at Chidira, a mountainous village on th eisland of Lesbos.The Georgios Iakovidis Digital Museum, located at the painter's birthplace, the village of Chidira on the island of Lesbos, is the first fully digital museum of art in Greece. Organized according to a special museological study based on new technologies, it presents the life and work of the renowned Greek painter through a variety of digital means. The Georgios Iakovidis Digital Museum was created on the initiative of the N. G. Papadimitriou Educational and Cultural Foundation. It is intended to function as a meeting place for Technology and Art, offering visitors of all ages a visual experience that combines both pleasure and knowledge.
The Museum of Industrial Olive-Oil Production
The Museum of Industrial Olive-Oil Production in Lesvos (MBEL) in Agia Paraskevi, on the Island of Lesvos, has been founded and designed by the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP), which is also responsible for its operation. It is housed in the premises of the old communal oil-mill - the Municipality of Agia Paraskevi having ceded their right of use to the Foundation. The project has been included in the 2000-2006 North Aegean Regional Operational Programme and has been financed by the Third EU Structural and Cohesion Fund This Museum is part of the network of thematic museums of technology.
Museum - Olive Press Vranas
In the village of Pappados, Lesvos, there is the Museum - Olive Press Vranas, established in 1887 by Vranas Nikolaou, which has been bought over by the "Archipelagos" company, restored and it currently operates as a museum of olive oil processing.
The Petrified Forest
Sigri is famous for its Petrified Forest and for the only Museum of Natural History on the island.
The Petrified Forest is one of the most beautiful monuments of gobal geological heritage. It extends over the northwestern portion of Lesvos, in a region covered almost exclusively by volcanic stone.
The protected area encompasses 150,000 square meters.
The Petrified Forest was created during the intense volcanic activity that occurred throughout the greater northeastern Aegean region 20 million years ago. The volcanic eruptions at that time caused enormous quantities of lava and ash to flow from volcanic vents, covering the center of Lesvos around these vents with molten lava, and the more distant regions with a thick layer of ash.
Abundant petrified tree-trunks in very good condition can be seen submerged in the sea at a depth of 30 meters. The largest concentration of these has been recorded west of the little island of Nisiopi, opposite Sigri. Tree trunks with 2½-meter diameters have been found on the seabed. These finds corroborate the theory of the continuity of the Petrified Forest in this particular underwater region.
In addition to tree trunks, systematic excavations here in recent years have uncovered petrified roots, fruit, branches and leaves.
A Unique Museum of Natural History
The Museum of the Petrified Forest was founded in 1994. Its mission is the research, promotion, display, preservation, protection, and all other suitable exploitation of this unique forest.
Archeological Museum of Mytilene
The Archeological Museum is housed in two buildings. The old building is a former mansion and estate. With its lavish carved decoration, the building on its own is characteristic of the early 20th century eclectic architecture in the city. It contains finds from the excavations of the famous prehistoric settlement at Thermi, as well as exceptional column capitals from the island’s celebrated Aeolic temples.The recently constructed modern building conforms to international museological standards. Its exhibits place emphasis on Roman-era Lesvos, and include mosaics, such as those from the famous “Menandros House,” frescos, sculpture, votives, funerary statues and more.
The Theophilos Museum
This museum displays the paintings of the famous local folk artist Theophilos. In operation since 1965, you will find it nestled in a verdant olive grove in the Mytilene suburb of Vareia.
