It was founded in 1981 by a donation from Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation with designs by Stamos Papadakis. It houses findings from excavations in Andros. In the beautifully designed rooms, with the help of photo booths and figurines, the visitor is guided through the history of the island from the Neolithic era to Byzantine times. Here is housed the great collection of the geometrical settlement of Zagora as well as a very well-preserved copy of the map of Rigas Feraios. Among the most important and impressive exhibits of the Museum are the Hermes of Andros, a Hellenistic copy of Praxiteles of the same name found in 1833 in Paleopolis, the headless Kouroi, the torso of Artemis, a Roman copy of the 2nd century. BC, inscriptions sculptures of the pre-Byzantine and Byzantine era.