Open:
Monday to Sunday: 08.00-20.00
Tickets:
Full: €3, Reduced: €2
Special ticket package: Full: €8, Reduced: €4
Valid for: Archaeological Museum of Corfu, Byzantine Museum of Antivouniotissa, Museum of Asian Art, Old Fortress of Corfu
Today the Palace of Archangel Michael and St George houses the Museum of Asian Art of Corfu, the only museum in Greece that is dedicated exclusively to art and antiquities of the Far East and India.
Founded in 1928 as Sinojapanese Museum of Art, on the occasion of the donation of sinojapanese collection of Gregorios Manos. Since then, the Museum worked like a magnet, attracting many other donations, thus includes about 15,000 objects Asian art from private collections and donations of individual objects. Particularly donation Hatzivassiliou in 1973 with the addition of 400 works from India, Pakistan, Tibet, Siam and Southeast Asia, has changed the nature strictly sinoiaponiko Museum and resulted in the renaming of a Museum of Asian Art.
