Editing Corfu (section)

=== Museums and libraries ===
[[File:Gorgon at the Artemis temple in Corfu.jpg|thumb|The [[Gorgon]] as depicted on the western [[pediment]] from the [[Temple of Artemis (Corfu)|Temple of Artemis]], on display at the [[Archaeological Museum of Corfu]]]]

The most notable of Corfu's museums and libraries are located in the city; these include:<ref name="Libraries and Museums from City Hall website">{{cite web |url=http://www.corfu.gr/en/tourism/archives.htm |title=Libraries and Museums from the City Hall website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106230632/http://www.corfu.gr/en/tourism/archives.htm |archive-date=6 January 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

*[[Archaeological Museum of Corfu|The Archaeological Museum]], inaugurated in 1967, was constructed to house the exhibit of the huge [[Gorgon]] [[pediment]] of the [[Temple of Artemis (Corfu)|Artemis temple in the ancient city of Korkyra]], excavated at Palaiopolis in the early 20th century. The pediment has been described by ''[[The New York Times]]'' as the "finest example of [[Archaic Greece|archaic]] temple sculpture extant".<ref name="New York Times">{{cite news |last=Frommer's Review |title=Archaeological Museum |url=http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/europe/greece/ionian-islands/corfu/28285/archaeological-museum/attraction-detail.html |access-date=26 September 2011 |newspaper=The New York Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811102300/http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/europe/greece/ionian-islands/corfu/28285/archaeological-museum/attraction-detail.html |archive-date=11 August 2011}}</ref> [[Kaiser Wilhelm II]] had developed a "lifelong obsession" with the Gorgon sculpture, dating from seminars on Greek Archaeology the Kaiser attended while at the [[University of Bonn]]. The seminars were given by archaeologist [[Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz]], who later became the Kaiser's advisor.<ref name="Röhl1998"/> In 1994, two more halls were added to the museum, where new discoveries from the excavations of the ancient city and the Garitsa cemetery are exhibited.
*The [[Museum of Asian art of Corfu]] is located at the [[Palace of St. Michael and St. George]] (mainly Chinese and Japanese Arts); its unique collection is housed in 15 rooms, taking in over 12,000 artifacts, including a [[Greco-Buddhist art]] collection that shows the influence of [[Alexander the Great]] on Buddhist culture as far as [[Pakistan]] (see [[Greco-Buddhism]]).
*The [[Banknote Museum]], located in [[Saint Spyridon|Aghios Spyridon]] square, features a complete collection of Greek banknotes from independence to the adoption of the [[euro]] in 2002.
*The [[Byzantine Museum of Antivouniotissa]], a church converted into a museum featuring rare Byzantine art.
*[[Kapodistrias Museum]]. Ioannis Kapodistrias' summer home in Koukourisa in his birthplace of Corfu has been converted to a museum commemorating his life and accomplishments and has been named in his honour.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bistika |first1=Eleni |date=22 February 2008 |script-title=el:Ιωάννης Καποδίστριας και 180 χρόνια ελληνορωσικών διπλωματικών σχέσεων, στο Κέντρο Ευρωπαϊκών Σπουδών... |trans-title=Ioannis Kapodistrias and 180 years of Greek-Russian diplomatic relations, at the Center for European Studies... |url=https://www.kathimerini.gr/opinion/708234/ioannis-kapodistrias-kai-180-chronia-ellinorosikon-diplomatikon-scheseon-sto-kentro-eyropaikon-spoydon/ <!--former URL at http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_columns_1_22/02/2008_260236--> |work=[[Kathimerini]] |language=el |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241211081314/https://www.kathimerini.gr/opinion/708234/ioannis-kapodistrias-kai-180-chronia-ellinorosikon-diplomatikon-scheseon-sto-kentro-eyropaikon-spoydon/ |archive-date=11 December 2024 |script-quote=el:Η γενέτειρά του Κέρκυρα, ψύχραιμη, απολαμβάνει το προνόμιο να έχει το γοητευτικό Μουσείο Καποδίστρια στη θέση Κουκουρίσα{{nbsp}}... εξοχική κατοικία με τον μαγευτικό κήπο της οικογενείας Καποδίστρια, που η Μαρία Δεσύλλα – Καποδίστρια δώρισε στις τρεις κερκυραϊκές εταιρείες |trans-quote=His birthplace, Corfu, cool, enjoys the privilege to have the charming Museum Kapodistria in the location Koukourisa{{nbsp}}... summer residence with the enchanting garden of the Kapodistrias family, which Maria Dessyla Kapodistria donated to the three Corfiote societies }}</ref> Donated by Maria Desylla Kapodistria, grand niece of Ioannis Kapodistrias, former mayor of Corfu and first female mayor of Greece.
*The Music Museum of the [[Philharmonic Society of Corfu]] is located in the building of the Philharmonic Society and features scores, instruments, paintings and documents related to the music history of Corfu and the 19th-century Ionian Islands.
[[File:Corfu library at Palaio Frourio.jpg|thumb|Corfu library at Palaio Frourio]]
*The Public Library of Corfu is located at the old English Barracks, in Palaio Frourio.
*The Reading Society of Corfu has an extensive library of old Corfu manuscripts and rare books.
*The [[Serbian Museum of Corfu]] ({{Langx|sr|Српска кућа}}, ''Serbian House'') houses rare exhibits about the Serbian soldiers' tragic fate during the [[First World War]]. The remnants of the Serbian Army of about 150,000 soldiers together with their government in exile, found refuge and shelter in Corfu, following the collapse of the Serbian Front as a result of the [[Austro-Hungarian]] attack of 6 October 1915. Exhibits include photographs from the three years stay of the Serbians in Corfu, together with other exhibits such as uniforms, arms and ammunition of the Serbian army, Serbian regimental flags, religious artifacts, surgical tools and other decorations of the Kingdom of Serbia.
*Solomos Museum and the Corfiot Studies Society.