prehistoric items, sculptures, pottery and minor art, bronzes and Egyptian art, everything followed by detailed explanations in English. Some of the temporary exhibitions organised by the museum must not be missed. It is located near the Omonoia square, on Patission Street 44.
 The Byzantine and Christian Museum |
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This museum was founded in 1914 and is housing an important collection of Greek ecclesiastical art from the 4th century to the 19th century: Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons, sculpture, manuscripts, wall paintings, mosaics, wood carvings and many objects (cloth, coins, pottery…) The Museum is located in the central neighbourhood of Kolonaki, 22 Vassilis Sofias Av.
| Museum of Popular Instruments |
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This museum is dedicated to music and has an amazing collection of about 1200 Greek popular musical instruments dating from the 18th century up to the present day.
The museum exhibits traditional Greek instruments like toumberlekia (pottery drums), daoulia (drums), defia (tambourines), flogeres - souravlia - mandoures (flutes), tsabounes, gaides (bagpipes), zournades (shawms), tambourades, laghouta (long-necked lutes), outia (short-necked lutes), quitars , mandolins, dulcimers but also koudounia (bells), massies (tongs with cymbals), simandro (semanterion), and many more…
Recitals of Greek traditional music often take place in the mansion’s garden.
The museum is located in Plaka, 1-3 Diogenous Street and is housed in the historical Lassanis Mansion, close to the Roman Agora.
| Atelier Spyros Vassiliou |
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The home and studio of Spyros Vassiliou (1902/3-1985) is now open
to the public as a museum and archive, hence becoming the principal
authority on the artist.
The Atelier recomposes the artistic progression
of one of the most acclaimed, reputed and prolific exponents of contemporary
Greek art bydisplaying a large number of his works in a wonderful
setting just across from the Herodus Atticus Odeon, under the Acropolis.
The museum is located 5a Webster St., Acropolis Athens 11742 Metro
Acropolis.
| War Museum of Athens |
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The War Museum of Athens is dedicated to the army and the Naval Forces of Greece.
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| The Acropolis Museum |
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The Acropolis Museum is considered as one of the most important museums in the world. As its name shows, it is located on the Acropolis site.
Many masterpieces have been stolen during Greece’s many occupations, but the museum is nevertheless housing many masterpieces from the Athenian Sanctuary of “Temenos” of Athena Parthenos.
The museum exhibits only sculptures and statues from the monuments of the Acropolis. The vases and inscriptions are housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens and Epigraphical Museum.
The collection of the museum is made of sculptural offerings of the Archaic period, pediments of temples dated to the Archaic period, Archaic horsemen, sculptures of the "Severe" style, pediments and Metopes from the Parthenon, the Parthenon frieze, the Erechtheion frieze, parapets of the Athena Nike temple, frieze of the Athena Nike temple, and the worldly famous Caryatids.
| The archaeological museum of Kerameikos |
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The Kerameikos has been the city’s cemetery from the 12th century BC up to the Roman Times.
The Kerameikos is really easy to reach, since it is located at 148 Ermou Street. Despite it central location, this site is between the greenest of Athens. The museum displays stalae, sculptures, vases and figurine found on the site and around it.
| The Numismatic Museum |
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This amazing museum houses some six hundreds thousands of coins, from the ancient Greek world, the Roman and Byzantine periods, the western Mediaeval times up to modern times, as well as"hoards" (closed numismatic groups), weights, lead stamps, medals and precious stones.
There are also ten thousand volumes devoted to the special field of numismatics, to its history, the seals and to archaeology. The Museum is located in Panepistimiou 12, close to the Syntagma square.
| Benaki
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This is the private collection of Antoine Benaki, composed by Bronze Age finds, works of El Greco, the famous Cretan painter, ecclesiastical furniture and many other collections.
It is housed in a wonderful neoclassical house, located in the central neighbourhood of Kolonaki, 1 Vassilis Sofias Av.
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of international jewellery studies. It also exhibits the marvellous creations of Ilias Lalaounis, a famous Athenian jeweller and goldsmith, elected member to the French Academy des Beaux-Arts. The private museum is located in Makrigiani neighbourhood, 12 Makrigianni Street.
| Museum of the Ancient Agora (Stoa of Attalos) |
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The museum is located in the Agora, inside the famous Stoa of Attalos. This actual Stoa is a reproduction of the original that was built by King Attalos II of Pergramum around 150 B.C.
The collection of the museum is very interesting and diverse as it includes finds from the wells, deposits, burials, workshops and sanctuaries, clay, bronze, bone, ivory, and glass objects, sculptures, coins, pottery, inscriptions, clay lamps, pottery of the Byzantine period and the Turkish occupation, amphoras, and also architectural parts of the Upper Stoa.
| The Goulandris Foundation Museum of Cycladic Art |
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This museum is a private collection of Cycladic art and Ancient Greek art of great importance housed in a beautiful house.
The Cycladic collection is a marvel of over 350 objects of the central Aegean Area, like marble sculpture and figurines or pottery, all dated between 3200 and 2000 B.C.
The Ancient Greek Art Collection includes artefacts from the Bronze Age to the Roman times: pottery, terracotta figurines, sculpture, metal and glass ware, jewellery… The museum is easily accessible as it is located in the central neighbourhood of Kolonaki, at n.4, Neofytou Douka Street.
| The Planetarium |
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It is one of the best planetariums in the world and was established with the testament of Eugene Eugenidis, a Greek ship owner and benefactor, who wanted to create an institution that would educate Greek young people in the sections of technology and science.
The Athens Digital Planetarium counts on a large scale cinema projection system, which displays images over an area that is ten times bigger than a regular cinema room.
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| Children's Museum |
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The Children Museum is found in Plaka, the oldest neighbourhood of Athens, and its aim is to offer an enjoyable and educational experience to our children. Parents and grandparents can accompany the children. There the children will have the opportunity to play and learn together.
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