: Discovering Gozo :

Museum of Archaeology -The Citadel:

The Museum of Archaeology is based in a 17th century building just behind the Old Gate within the Citadel walls. The exhibits originate from various archaeological sites on and in the seas around Gozo.

There are exhibits from the Neolithic period, the Temple period and the Bronze Age as well as others from the Phoenician, Roman, Medieval and the Knights period. The artefacts vary from coins to stonework and pottery and are proof of Gozo’s long and rich history.

Opening Hours:	(closed on Public Holidays)
October 1 - March 31 open Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 16.30
April 1 - June 15 open Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 18.30
June 16 - September 15 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 19.00
September 16 - September 30 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 18.30
SUNDAYS OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND:	08.30 - 15.00

Folklore Museum - The Citadel

The Folklore museum can be found in Milite Bernardo Street also within the Citadel walls. It consists of more than one house built in a rare Sicilian style and the oldest part of the building dates back to the 15th century. The museum houses a wide range of exhibits exposing the domestic and rural Gozitan way of life throughout the ages.

Opening Hours:	(closed on Public Holidays)
October 1 - March 31 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 16.30
April 1 - June 15 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 18.30
June 16 - September 15 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 19.00
September 16 - September 30 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 18.30
SUNDAYS OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND:	08.30 - 15.00

Natural Science Museum - The Citadel

The Natural Science Museum is found in the Citadel and is situated just behind the Law Courts in a building that dates back to the 15th century. This was during the Aragonese rule and it is thought to have been Gozo’s first inn. One may view a collection of fossils in the geology section. There are also local as well as imported exhibits relating to ornithology, mineralogy, botany and marine life.

Opening Hours:	(closed on Public Holidays)
October 1 - March 31 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 16.30
April 1 - June 15 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 18.30
June 16 - September 15 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 19.00
September 16 - September 30 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 18.30
SUNDAYS OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND:	08.30 - 15.00

Ggantija Temples - Xaghra

The world’s oldest freestanding structure, the Ggantija Temples have to be Gozo’s most precious treasure and can be visited in the village of Xaghra. There are actually two temples and they date back to 3500BC an impressive thousand years older than the Egyptian pyramids. The structures are an impressive seven metres high and are incredibly well preserved.

OPENING HOURS:	(closed on Public Holidays)
October 1 - March 31 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 16.30
April 1 - June 15 Mondays - Saturdays :	08.30 - 18.30
June 16 - September 15 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 19.00
September 16 - September 30 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 18.30
SUNDAYS OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND:	08.30 - 15.00

Ta' Kola Windmill Museum - Xaghra

The Ta Kola Windmill is found just a short walk away from the Ggantija Temples in Xaghra. It was built in 1725 and financed by the Order of St. John. The miller used to sound a large shell to communicate to his fellow villagers that the wind was right and they were to go to the windmill to process their wheat. The Mill was actually still inhabited until 1987. Its last occupier was Guzeppi a very skilled man son of the last miller Kola from whom the mill got its name. Exhibits include several old tools.

OPENING HOURS:	(closed on Public Holidays)
October 1 - March 31 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 16.30
April 1 - June 15 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 18.30
June 16 - September 15 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 19.00
September 16 - September 30 Mondays - Saturdays:	08.30 - 18.30
SUNDAYS OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND:	08.30 - 15.00

NINU'S CAVE

17 January Street - Xaghra (Tel: 21556863)
Ninu’s Cave and Xerri’s Grotto are both accidentally discovered caves beneath private houses in the village of Xaghra in which several stalactites, stalagmites and even a few columns have formed over several hundreds of thousands of years. These formations are the result of mineral traces found in the rocks, collected by rainwater and subsequently deposited on the ceiling and floor of the caves as it seeps down by gravity to the water table.

Opening Hours:	Daily - 08.30 - 18.00
Entrance Fee:	25 cents

XERRI'S GROTTO

Gnien Imrik Street, Xaghra (Tel: (+356) 21560572)
Xerri’s Grotto and Ninu’s Cave are both accidentally discovered caves beneath private houses in the village of Xaghra in which several stalactites, stalagmites and even a few columns have formed over several hundreds of thousands of years. These formations are the result of mineral traces found in the rocks, collected by rainwater and subsequently deposited on the ceiling and floor of the caves as it seeps down by gravity to the water table.

Opening Hours:	Daily - 09.00 - 18.00
Entrance Fee:	50 cents

TOYS MUSEUM - Xaghra

The privately owned Toys museum in Xaghra exhibits hundreds of old toys from all over the world. The earliest toy displayed is an 18th century Maltese doll with a head carved in wood.
(Telephone: 21562489)

OPENING HOURS:
Mondays - Saturdays:	10.00 - 12.00 and 15.00 - 18.00
(Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays)
ENTRANCE FEES:	Lm 0.85 (Adults)
Lm 0.35 (Children and Senior Citizens)

Gharb Folklore Museum

The Gharb Folklore Museum is a privately owned unique early 18th century historical house. Touring this 28th roomed house one can view exhibits from Gozo’s past like a miller’s room and a carpenter’s workshop.

Main Square, Gharb. Tel 21561929

Opening Hours:

Monday – Saturday 9am – 4pm Sunday 9am – 1pm

Gozo Heritage - Ghajnsielem

The Gozo Heritage is a privately owned museum that offers a spectacular historical walk through. The museum exposes the visitor to 7000 years of Gozitan history using life size sculptures set in period environments and animated by audio visual electronic means.

The show starts with a stop in the Neolithic age exhibiting Megalithic structures and then goes on to a mythology section where the legend of Calypso is narrated in a fascinating manner. The Roman period, the arrival of Christianity, the Arab domination, the Knights of St. John, the Great Siege, right up to the British colonisation follow in sequence. Emphasis is made to personalities who over the centuries have contributed to the island’s rich history and folklore.

Mgarr Road, Ghajnsielem. (near heliport) Tel 21558794
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 8.45am – 4.40pm

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