Museums in Athens

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Benaki Museum Benaki Museum

Kolonaki

Benaki Museum

The centrepiece of the Benaki Museum, it aims to present the historical and cultural development of Hellenism within its geographical and evolutionary...
OTE Telecommunications Museum OTE Telecommunications Museum

Kifissia

OTE Telecommunications Museum

Man’s telecommunications inventions in his effort to overcome the barriers of space and time, from antiquity to today, compose the collection of OTE Group...
Acropolis Museum Acropolis Museum

Acropolis

Acropolis Museum

At the New Acropolis Museum, you will discover the treasures that were found in the archeological site but you will also admire an impressive building of...
Industrial Gas Museum Industrial Gas Museum

Gazi

Industrial Gas Museum

The Industrial Gas Museum was inaugurated in 2013, aiming at protecting and promoting the old gasworks, which used to provide energy and light to the capital...
School Life and Education Museum School Life and Education Museum

School Life and Education Museum

Housed in a beautiful neoclassical, listed building of 1850, the School Life and Education Museum of the National Research and Rescue of School Material...
Benaki Toy Museum Benaki Toy Museum

Palaio Faliro

Benaki Toy Museum

The Benaki Toy Museum, on Posidonos Avenue and Tritonos Street in Palaio Faliro, opened to the public in 2017. Its holdings, based on the collection of Maria...
Benaki Museum of Islamic Art Benaki Museum of Islamic Art

Kerameikos

Benaki Museum of Islamic Art

The Islamic Art collections of the Benaki Museum are exhibited in the Museum of Islamic Art and ranks among the most important in the world. Antonis Benakis...
Benaki Museum- Pireos Street Cultural Centre Benaki Museum- Pireos Street Cultural Centre

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Benaki Museum- Pireos Street Cultural Centre

The multi-dynamic Pireos Street Cultural Centre is an industrial building of the 1960’s transformed into a modern museum space, which includes a central...
Hellenic Motor Museum Hellenic Motor Museum

Viktoria

Hellenic Motor Museum

The Hellenic Motor Museum is housed in the modern and of industrial architectural design Capitol Mall in downtown Athens and welcomes young and old lovers of...
Kerameikos Archaeological Museum Kerameikos Archaeological Museum

Kerameikos

Kerameikos Archaeological Museum

The Kerameikos Archaeological Museum is within Kerameikos archaeological site (near Monastiraki metro station and Thissio train station). It is considered to...
Byzantine and Christian Museum Byzantine and Christian Museum

Kolonaki

Byzantine and Christian Museum

Located in the center of Athens, at a short distance from the metro station 'Evangelismos', you will find the Byzantine and Christian Museum, one of the most...
Tactual Museum Tactual Museum

Kallithea

Tactual Museum

The Tactual Museum was founded in Athens in 1984 aiming to offer visually impaired people the opportunity to know the Greek cultural heritage. The initiative...
Epigraphical Museum Epigraphical Museum

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Epigraphical Museum

The Epigraphical Museum, which was founded in 1885 and is located in the center of Athens is unique in Greece and throughout the world as it is the largest...
Numismatic Museum Numismatic Museum

Syntagma

Numismatic Museum

The Numismatic Museum is located on a 19th century monumental building and what used to be the house of Heinrich Schliemann, in the heart of Athens.   It...
Frissiras Museum Frissiras Museum

Plaka

Frissiras Museum

The Museum of Contemporary European Painting in Greece has been housed in two radically refurbished neoclassical buildings in Plaka, in the historic center...
Herakleidon Museum Herakleidon Museum

Thiseio

Herakleidon Museum

The Herakleidon Museum was founded in July 2004 by Pavlos Firos and his wife, Anna-Belinda, for Fine Art friends and it is housed in an 1898 neoclassical...
Museum of the City of Athens Museum of the City of Athens

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Museum of the City of Athens

Housed in two of the oldest buildings in Athens, the Museum of the City of Athens-Vouros-Eftaxias Foundation is located in Klafthmonos Square in the most...
National Archaeological Museum National Archaeological Museum

Exarchia

National Archaeological Museum

The National Archaeological Museum, the largest museum in Greece and one of the most important worldwide, is housed in a magnificent 9,500 sq.m. building on...
Electric Railway Museum Electric Railway Museum

Center

Electric Railway Museum

At the end of the Metro line to Piraeus, you'll come across the remarkable and interesting Electric Railway Museum, which was created by retirees of ISAP.
Vorres Museum Vorres Museum

Paiania

Vorres Museum

The cultural foundation, Vorres Museum in Paianias, on the foothills of Mount Hymettus, was created in 1983 with the primary purpose of showcasing the...
Goulandris Natural History Museum-Gaia Centre Goulandris Natural History Museum-Gaia Centre

Kifissia

Goulandris Natural History Museum-Gaia Centre

The Goulandris Natural History Museum was founded in 1965 by Angelos and Niki Goulandris in order to promote interest in Natural Sciences and is housed in an...
War Museum War Museum

Syntagma

War Museum

The War Museum is located in the centre of Athens. Through its rare ancient and modern archives, its unique collections and its priceless artefacts, The War...
National Museum of Contemporary Art National Museum of Contemporary Art

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National Museum of Contemporary Art

The National Museum of Contemporary Art was added to the cultural map of Athens in 2000, giving it a fresh upgrade. It was a welcome addition and fulfilled a...