Museums in the Athens A to Z
26 entries filed under Museum in the Athens A to Z Travel Dictionary. Each name opens the full entry.
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Acropolis Museum
The modern museum by Bernard Tschumi at the foot of the hill, showing the sculptures and finds of the Acropolis above a glass floor over live excavations.
Athens City Museum
Housed in the mansion that served as the first royal residence of King Otto, telling the story of Athens after independence.
B
Benaki Museum
A sweeping collection of Greek art and history from antiquity to the modern state, in a neoclassical mansion near the National Garden.
Benaki Museum of Islamic Art
The Benaki’s Islamic collection, shown in restored neoclassical houses on the edge of Kerameikos.
Byzantine and Christian Museum
A museum on Vasilissis Sofias Avenue devoted to Byzantine art (icons, frescoes, mosaics and sculpture) from the early Christian era onward.
C
Cycladic Art, Museum of
The Goulandris museum in Kolonaki, best known for its slender, minimalist marble Cycladic figurines.
E
Epigraphic Museum
Housed in the same building as the National Archaeological Museum, it holds one of the world's largest collections of ancient Greek inscriptions carved in stone.
F
Frissiras Museum
A Plaka museum of contemporary European painting, concentrating on the human figure.
G
Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art
The Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation museum in Pangrati, showing modern and contemporary Greek and international art in a purpose built gallery.
Goulandris Natural History Museum
A natural history museum in Kifisia covering Greek flora, fauna, minerals and the Gaia environmental centre; an easy pairing with a walk in the suburb.
H
Hellenic Motor Museum
A car museum at Ioulianou 33, a few minutes from the National Archaeological Museum. It occupies 3,000 square metres and displays more than 110 cars from the 19th and the 20th century.
Herakleidon Museum
A small private museum in Thiseio built around art, mathematics and visual perception, best known for exhibitions of graphic art and ancient Greek technology.
I
Industrial Gas Museum
The old Athens gasworks at Peiraios 100 in Gazi, inside Technopolis City of Athens.
J
Jewish Museum of Greece
A museum tracing over two thousand years of Greek Jewish history through artefacts, textiles and photographs, documenting communities that thrived across Greece before being devastated in the Holocaust.
K
Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology
A private museum at Pindarou 6 and Akademias showing working reconstructions of ancient Greek inventions built by Kostas Kotsanas, from the robot servant of Philon to the analogue computer of Antikythera.
L
Lalaounis (Ilias Lalaounis Jewellery Museum)
A museum below the Acropolis showing the work of goldsmith Ilias Lalaounis, whose designs drew on ancient Greek and other historic motifs.
M
Maria Callas Museum
The world’s first museum devoted to the soprano Maria Callas, inaugurated by the Municipality of Athens in 2023 at Mitropoleos 44. The tour begins on the second floor, with rooms for Norma, Tosca and La Traviata and her masterclasses at the Juilliard School, and continues on the first floor with her life story.
Municipal Gallery of Athens
The city’s own collection of modern Greek painting, in Metaxourgeio.
Museum of Ancient Greek Musical Instruments and Toys
A permanent exhibition of 45 fully functional reconstructed instruments and toys, in the same Pindarou 6 and Akademias building as the Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology. Visitors can listen to the Seikilos epitaph, the oldest known complete musical composition, and see an early instrument that later evolved into the church organ.
Museum of Modern Greek Culture
The state museum of Greek folk life and craft, spread across restored buildings between Plaka and Monastiraki.
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National Archaeological Museum
One of the world's great collections of ancient Greek art, from the Mask of Agamemnon to the Antikythera Mechanism.
National Gallery
The Ethniki Pinakothiki near Evangelismos, the main national collection of Greek painting and sculpture from the post Byzantine period onwards.
National Historical Museum
The museum of the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, whose collections cover the modern Greek state and its war of independence, alongside an archive of historical documents, a photographic archive and a library. Its annexes are the Lazaros Koundouriotis Historical Mansion and the Tetsis Home and Studio.
Numismatic Museum
A coin museum housed in Iliou Melathron, the ornate former mansion of archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann on Panepistimiou Street.
S
Stoa of Attalos
A reconstructed second century BC colonnaded hall in the Ancient Agora, originally a gift from the King of Pergamon, now housing the Museum of the Ancient Agora's collection of finds.
W
War Museum of Athens
A museum covering Greek military history from antiquity to the present day, displaying uniforms, weapons and models across several floors near the National Garden.