Museum
 
The French journalist, Rene Puaux (1878-1936), who spent his life collecting engravings, documents and relics of the battle, decides, on a journey to Pylos, to donate his rich collection to Pylos, as a first component of the Museum of Navarino. Puax’s dream was that in this museum all relics from the Greek Revolution and the most bizarre Battle of the modern era would be placed there.

[Rene Puaux 1878-1936] In June 1930, he was announced honorary citizen of the Municipality of Pylos, as a sample of gratitude for the valuable donation, while a small area was granted for the museum under construction. The collection was delivered to the Greek state in 1937 by the widow of Rene Puaux. After many difficulties, the museum was built in another plot, from 1956 until 1958, with a donation from the dentist Chr. Antonopoulos from Pidaso, an immigrant to America, whose name was given to the Museum.

In 1961 it began operating as a museum and hosted the collection or, the best part of the collection of Rene Puaux, which was donated to the Municipality of Pylos. However, the collection of Rene Puaux, has not found yet its own place. The exhibition of relics, after maintenance in Athens, is located in the renovated barracks of the Maizon, at the castle. The Antonopoulos Museum of Pylos functions as archaeological museum. The exhibits belong to the Mycenaean age or, and, older, the Archaic, the Hellenistic but also the Roman times.

The exhibits come from the region of Pylos. Out of the exhibits, impressive are the Burial pithos from Koukoynara and of course the investment warrior helmets from boar's teeth that can be found here, but also in the museum of Nafplio, and is a common feature of the soldier-warrior of the Achaeans. The three glass vases, but also the big ankle from the Hellenistic tomb of Tragana.