Ithacorama Portal
Daily airplanes depart from Athens (“Eleftherios Venizelos” airport) for Kefalonia Island. Than you have to take one of the passenger ferries to Ithaca.
In the 1996 the museum has included the collection of a series of etchings by JHW TISCHBREIN (1751-1829) with figures of Homer, courtesy of the Centre for Odyssean Studies.
It houses finds from the northern Ithaca dating from the proto-Helladic as the Roman period. The building was constructed in 1933. In 1994 was reform of the report and repairs of the Museum.
The museum collections include finds from the Geometric to the Roman years of excavations in the Aetos and the other locations.
The island has been inhabited since the 2nd millennium BC. It was the capital of Cephalonia during the Mycenaean period. The Romans occupied the island in the 2nd century BC, and later it became part of the Byzantine Empire.