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Acropolis Museum
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Full of fabled objects of Attic art found on the Acropolis, this...
Museums / Galleries Acropolis
 
Archaeological Museum
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Despite the impressive finds on display, this museum does not...
Museums / Galleries Pasalimani
 
Benaki Museum
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Greece's oldest private museum, established in 1926 by an illustrious...
Museums / Galleries Kolonaki
 
Byzantine and Christian Museum
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One of the few museums in Europe concentrating exclusively on...
Museums / Galleries Kolonaki
 
Center of Folk Art and Tradition
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Exhibits in the comfortable family mansion of folklorist Angeliki...
Museums / Galleries Plaka
 
Children's Museum
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In the courtyard, you may see children forming melted chocolate...
Museums / Galleries Plaka
 
Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art
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Art collector Dakis Joannou, who owns one of the world's largest...
Museums / Galleries Neo Psihiko
 
Epigraphical Museum
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The ancient marble inscriptions here may constitute the world's...
Museums / Galleries Exarchia
 
Frissiras Museum
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Two splendidly restored neoclassical mansions hold Greece's only...
Museums / Galleries Plaka
 
Goulandris Cycladic and Greek Ancient Art Museum
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Funded by one of Greece's richest families, this museum has an...
Museums / Galleries Kolonaki
 
Greek Folk Art Museum
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Run by the Ministry of Culture, the museum focuses on folk art...
Museums / Galleries Plaka
 
Hellenic Maritime Museum
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The 13,000 items on display include scale models and actual sections...
Museums / Galleries Pasalimani
 
Ilias LALAoUNIS Jewelry Museum
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Housing the creations of the internationally renowned artist...
Museums / Galleries Acropolis
 
Jewish Museum of Greece
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The museum's vivid memorabilia, on display in an elegantly renovated...
Museums / Galleries Plaka
 
Kanellopoulos Museum
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The stately Michaleas Mansion, built in 1884, now showcases the...
Museums / Galleries Plaka
 
Melina Mercouri Cultural Center
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Installed in the former Poulopoulos hat factory built in 1886...
Museums / Galleries Thission
 
Museum of Greek Children's Art
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One of the few museums of its kind in the world, this small but...
Museums / Galleries Plaka
 
Museum of Greek Popular Musical Instruments
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An entertaining crash course in the development of Greek music...
Museums / Galleries Plaka
 
Museum of Islamic Art
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Antonis Benakis, founder of the city's outstanding Benaki Museum...
Museums / Galleries Psirri
 
National Archaeological Museum
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By far the most important museum in Greece, this collection contains...
Museums / Galleries Exarchia
 
National Gallery of Art
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The permanent collections of Greek painting and sculpture of...
Museums / Galleries Ilisia
 
National Historical Museum
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After making the rounds of the ancient sites, you might think...
Museums / Galleries Syntagma Sq.
 
National Museum of Contemporary Art
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When it's fully open in 2007, this new museum in the former FIX...
Museums / Galleries Syngrou
 
New Acropolis Museum
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After languishing for years in the small museum on the site of...
Museums / Galleries Acropolis
 
Numismatic Museum
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Even those uninterested in coins might want to visit this museum...
Museums / Galleries Syntagma Sq.
 
Technopolis
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Gazi, the neighborhood surrounding this former 19th-century-foundry-turned-arts...
Museums / Galleries, Arts / Performance Venues Gazi
 
Turkish Bathhouse
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During Ottoman times, every neighborhood in Athens had a hammam,...
Museums / Galleries, Architectural Sites Plaka


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