Museums/Galleries in Athens

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Museums/Galleries in Athens

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