National Art Gallery
The National Art Gallery is located on Vassileos Konstantinou ave, in Athens, just opposite the Hilton Hotel and in a walking distance from Syntagma Square. The gallery was founded in 1900 and the first director was the Greek painter Georgios Iakovides. Today the collection of the National Gallery consists of 17,000 pieces of painting, sculpture, engraving and other forms of art, covering a period from the post-Byzantine times till the present days. The National Gallery is housed in two buildings: the central building opposite Athens Hilton Hotel houses the collection of paintings, while another building in the neighborhood of Goudi houses the sculptures.
Address: Vassileos Konstantinou and Mihalakopoulou, metro station Evangelismos
Tel: (0030) 210 7235937