Mykonos for families

Best museums

Mykonos reads first as a beach island, but the Cyclades have been a crossroads since antiquity, and the museums clustered in and around its harbour reflect that older identity. The four below are worth a half-day off the sand: two archaeological collections anchored on Mykonos itself and on the sacred island of Delos, a maritime museum that takes the Aegean's seafaring history seriously, and a fourth sister-island collection on Tinos for travellers willing to ferry across. None of them are large. All of them are specific. The Archaeological Museum of Mykonos sits in the Chora at 37.4500, 25.3297; the Aegean Maritime Museum is a few minutes' walk away at 37.4453, 25.3284; Delos and Tinos require a boat. Skip the souvenir-shop circuit along the waterfront if you only have one morning — these four are where the island actually explains itself.