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Virtual tours of Athens

Walk round the Acropolis, the big museums and the city’s streets from your screen, before you go or after you are home. 33 tours of 20 places, from the museums and sites themselves, Google Arts and Culture and Google Maps, each with the date we checked the link.

How to use this page. Every button opens the tour on its own site in a new tab; nothing loads on this page until you click. Official tours come from the museum or site that runs them. Google Arts and Culture tours are street level visits made with the museum. Look around in Google Maps opens Google Maps at that place: street level imagery exists for most of these spots, but we have not checked each one.

Links checked 4 Oct 2026. Tours that run inside the browser were checked for their titles and lists, so a panorama may take a moment to load.

Jump to: From the museums and sites 12 Google Arts and Culture 11 Look around in Google Maps 8 Films and more 2

From the museums and sites 12

Acropolis Virtual Tour

Official tour · Acropolis and Parthenon

Very detailed panoramas of the Parthenon, the Propylaia, the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Nike, plus close views of the ancient walls. You pick viewpoints from a map of the hill and zoom into architectural details, with short notes on each monument.

By: Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA), Hellenic Ministry of Culture

What you need: Works in a browser on computers and phones. No app needed.

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Virtual tour at the Acropolis Museum

Official tour · Acropolis Museum

A 360 degree video tour of the galleries, posted by the museum in June 2020. You choose which way to look as it plays.

By: Acropolis Museum

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Digital virtual tour for persons with mobility impairment or hard of hearing individuals in the context of the National Archaeological Museum Action Plan for People with Disabilities

Official tour · National Archaeological Museum

A 3D walk through 36 rooms with tags on 86 exhibits. You can move freely, jump between floors, or use a floor plan and a dollhouse view of the building.

By: National Archaeological Museum, with PostScriptum (Matterport)

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Αρχαία Αγορά Αθηνών (Ancient Agora of Athens)

Official tour · Ancient Agora and Stoa of Attalos

A film of about three minutes, in Greek, on the finished upgrade of the site: new visitor facilities, new walking routes and better access. It is a film, not an interactive tour.

By: Hellenic Ministry of Culture (official YouTube channel)

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Sources (1)
  • youtube.com, read 4 Oct 2026 (opened the page (length from search engine copy))

360° Virtual Visits by Panomedia.gr

Official tour · Benaki Museum

360 degree panoramas of the Benaki main building, floor by floor, with a switch between the ground, first and second floors.

By: Benaki Museum (panoramas by Panomedia)

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Take a virtual tour of the museum

Official tour · Benaki Museum

The museum's launch page for its virtual tour (April 2020), with an audio guide in six languages and suggested stops: El Greco in Gallery 12, a 17th century Egyptian reception room in the Museum of Islamic Art, the Ghika Gallery and the Yannis Pappas studio.

By: Benaki Museum

What you need: Works in a browser.

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MUSEUM 360°

Official tour · Museum of Cycladic Art

Virtual tours of the four permanent exhibition floors: Cycladic Art, Ancient Greek Art, Ancient Cypriot Art and Scenes from Daily Life in Antiquity, each opened from this page.

By: Museum of Cycladic Art

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Virtual tour

Official tour · Byzantine and Christian Museum

A walk through the halls along the curators' route, starting with early Christian art. Greek News Agenda (Jan 2021) describes red markers that open details of exhibits.

By: Byzantine and Christian Museum

What you need: Works in a browser.

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National Gallery: Virtual Tour

Official tour · National Gallery (Alexandros Soutsos Museum)

The gallery's own virtual tour. Its Greek start page says you walk up to a work and click for details, and use a menu to change section or floor.

By: National Gallery of Greece

What you need: Works in a browser, with mouse or keyboard.

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Sources (1)
  • vrtour.nationalgallery.gr, read 4 Oct 2026 (opened the page (title only; the tour runs as a script); controls from search engine copy)

Virtual tour of the Donors' Hall of the Numismatic Museum

Official tour · Numismatic Museum (Iliou Melathron)

A 3D tour of the Donors' Hall, the former dining room of Schliemann's mansion, where the collections of the museum's main donors are shown. Posted in December 2021.

By: Numismatic Museum

What you need: Works in a browser.

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SNFCC Virtual Visit

Official tour · Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

A virtual visit with 17 viewpoints, from the Canal and the Agora by day and by night to the National Library reading room, the Opera's main hall and dome, the seismic isolators under the building and the Energy Canopy on the roof.

By: Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Εικονικές περιηγήσεις (Virtual tours)

Official tour · Hellenic Parliament

Virtual tours of the Senate Hall, the Plenary Hall and the Peristyle of the Parliament building, plus past exhibitions. The page is in Greek.

By: Hellenic Parliament Foundation

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Google Arts and Culture 11

Parthenon

Google Arts and Culture · Acropolis and Parthenon

A 3D model of the Parthenon on Google Arts and Culture (rights: Google, 2021), shown with a short history of the temple.

By: Google Arts and Culture

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Greece

Google Arts and Culture · Acropolis and Parthenon

A virtual field trip with stops at the Acropolis seen from the south west and the east, the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Erechtheum and the Agora below, before moving on to Lycabettus, Santorini and Meteora. Google says these field trips mix 360 degree and flat images.

By: Google Arts and Culture (made for Google Expeditions by ePublishing Partners and AirPano)

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece

Google Arts and Culture · Acropolis Museum

Four Street View visits inside the museum: the main tour, the interior, the excavation under the building and the third floor Parthenon Gallery, plus online exhibits such as The City Beneath the Museum. The museum's own website links to these tours.

By: Google Arts and Culture, with the Acropolis Museum

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece (Street View)

Google Arts and Culture · Acropolis Museum

Opens straight into Street View inside the museum, so a card button lands the reader in the galleries at once.

By: Google Arts and Culture, with the Acropolis Museum

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Explore The Acropolis Museum From Home

Google Arts and Culture · Acropolis Museum

A short Google story on star pieces such as the Peplos Kore, the Kritios Boy and the Kore with the almond shaped eyes, with a Street View scene you can drag to look around a gallery.

By: Google Arts and Culture

What you need: Works in a browser.

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National Gallery of Greece, Alexandros Soutsos Museum

Google Arts and Culture · National Gallery (Alexandros Soutsos Museum)

Five Street View visits: the entrance, the permanent collection on the first, second and third floors, and the 2021 exhibition 1821 in Painting, plus 33 online stories.

By: Google Arts and Culture, with the National Gallery

What you need: Works in a browser.

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National Gallery Athens: Entrance

Google Arts and Culture · National Gallery (Alexandros Soutsos Museum)

Opens straight into Street View at the gallery entrance.

By: Google Arts and Culture, with the National Gallery

What you need: Works in a browser.

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National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMΣT)

Google Arts and Culture · EMST (National Museum of Contemporary Art)

Two Street View visits, the Rooftop and the Sails, plus ten online stories about works and artists.

By: Google Arts and Culture, with EMST

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Rooftop, Athens, Greece

Google Arts and Culture · EMST (National Museum of Contemporary Art)

Opens straight into Street View on the EMST rooftop.

By: Google Arts and Culture, with EMST

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Google Arts and Culture · Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Online exhibits and about 290 items, such as Claudia Wieser: Surroundings and a WOW Festival photo show. No Street View visit was listed.

By: Google Arts and Culture, with the SNFCC

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Greece

Google Arts and Culture · Lycabettus

Part of the Google field trip on Greece, with stops at Mount Lycabettus, the view over the city and the Chapel of St George facing the summit viewing platform.

By: Google Arts and Culture (made for Google Expeditions by ePublishing Partners and AirPano)

What you need: Works in a browser.

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Look around in Google Maps 8

Google Maps search: Adrianou Street, Plaka

Google Maps street level · Plaka (Old Town streets)

Opens the place in Google Maps. Street View or visitors' 360 degree photos open from there where they exist; coverage at this spot is Not verified.

By: Google Maps

What you need: Works in a browser; the Google Maps app on phones.

Look around in Google Maps

Sources (1)
  • google.com, read 4 Oct 2026 (search link built from the name; Street View coverage Not verified)

Google Maps search: Lycabettus Hill

Google Maps street level · Lycabettus

Opens the place in Google Maps. Street View or visitors' 360 degree photos open from there where they exist; coverage at this spot is Not verified.

By: Google Maps

What you need: Works in a browser; the Google Maps app on phones.

Look around in Google Maps

Sources (1)
  • google.com, read 4 Oct 2026 (search link built from the name; Street View coverage Not verified)

Google Maps search: Temple of Poseidon, Sounion

Google Maps street level · Cape Sounion and the Temple of Poseidon

Opens the place in Google Maps. Street View or visitors' 360 degree photos open from there where they exist; coverage at this spot is Not verified.

By: Google Maps

What you need: Works in a browser; the Google Maps app on phones.

Look around in Google Maps

Sources (1)
  • google.com, read 4 Oct 2026 (search link built from the name; Street View coverage Not verified)

Google Maps search: Temple of Olympian Zeus

Google Maps street level · Temple of Olympian Zeus

Opens the place in Google Maps. Street View or visitors' 360 degree photos open from there where they exist; coverage at this spot is Not verified.

By: Google Maps

What you need: Works in a browser; the Google Maps app on phones.

Look around in Google Maps

Sources (1)
  • google.com, read 4 Oct 2026 (search link built from the name; Street View coverage Not verified)

Google Maps search: Panathenaic Stadium

Google Maps street level · Panathenaic Stadium

Opens the place in Google Maps. Street View or visitors' 360 degree photos open from there where they exist; coverage at this spot is Not verified.

By: Google Maps

What you need: Works in a browser; the Google Maps app on phones.

Look around in Google Maps

Sources (1)
  • google.com, read 4 Oct 2026 (search link built from the name; Street View coverage Not verified)

Google Maps search: Library of Hadrian

Google Maps street level · Hadrian's Library

Opens the place in Google Maps. Street View or visitors' 360 degree photos open from there where they exist; coverage at this spot is Not verified.

By: Google Maps

What you need: Works in a browser; the Google Maps app on phones.

Look around in Google Maps

Sources (1)
  • google.com, read 4 Oct 2026 (search link built from the name; Street View coverage Not verified)

Google Maps search: Roman Agora

Google Maps street level · Roman Agora

Opens the place in Google Maps. Street View or visitors' 360 degree photos open from there where they exist; coverage at this spot is Not verified.

By: Google Maps

What you need: Works in a browser; the Google Maps app on phones.

Look around in Google Maps

Sources (1)
  • google.com, read 4 Oct 2026 (search link built from the name; Street View coverage Not verified)

Google Maps search: Kerameikos

Google Maps street level · Kerameikos

Opens the place in Google Maps. Street View or visitors' 360 degree photos open from there where they exist; coverage at this spot is Not verified.

By: Google Maps

What you need: Works in a browser; the Google Maps app on phones.

Look around in Google Maps

Sources (1)
  • google.com, read 4 Oct 2026 (search link built from the name; Street View coverage Not verified)

Films and more 2

Interactive Tour of the Acropolis of Athens (circa 5th century B.C.)

Film or other tour · Acropolis and Parthenon

Page for the foundation's dome show, which rebuilds the Acropolis of Pericles' time in 3D, with statues in their original colours. The page carries a short video; the full guided show runs in person in the Tholos dome.

By: Foundation of the Hellenic World (Hellenic Cosmos cultural centre)

What you need: Works in a browser for the video. The full show needs a ticket at Hellenic Cosmos.

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Interactive Tour at the Ancient Agora of Athens

Film or other tour · Ancient Agora and Stoa of Attalos

The foundation's 3D reconstruction of the Agora at three moments: about 400 BC, 150 BC and AD 150. The page has a short video; the full guided version is a show in the Tholos dome.

By: Foundation of the Hellenic World (Hellenic Cosmos cultural centre)

What you need: Works in a browser for the video. The full show needs a ticket at Hellenic Cosmos.

Open it

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