MUSEUMS OF ATHENS GREECE

The most important museums of Athens include: The National Archaeological Museum, the largest archaeological museum in the country, and one of the most important internationally, and the Benaki Museum with its several branches for each of its collections.

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MUSEUMS OF ATHENS: Acropolis Museum, Benaki Museum, Byzantine & Christian Museum, Museum of the City of Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art, Museum of Greek Folk Art, Ilias Lalounas Jewelry Museum, National Archaeological Museum, Numismatic Museum, Syntagma Metro Archaeological Collection, Athens University Museum,

ACROPOLIS MUSEUM The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum focused on the findings from the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on its feet, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece. It also lies on the archaeological site of Makrygianni and the ruins of a part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens ...

BENAKI MUSEUM The Benaki Museum, established and endowed in 1930 by Antonis Benakis in memory of his father Emmanuel Benakis, is housed in the Benakis family mansion in downtown Athens, Greece. The museum houses Greek works of art from the prehistorical to the modern times, an extensive collection of Asian art, hosts periodic exhibitions ...

BYZANTINE & CHRISTIAN MUSEUM The Byzantine and Christian Museum is situated at Vassilissis Sofias Avenue in Athens, Greece. It was founded in 1914 and houses more than 25,000 exhibits with rare collections of pictures, scriptures, frescoes, pottery, fabrics, manuscripts and copies of artifacts from the 3rd century AD to the late medieval era ...

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF ATHENS Museum of the City of Athens Vouros - Eutaxias is a museum in Athens, Greece. It houses a collection of a variety of Athens-related items collected by art collector Lambros Eutaxias (1905-1996). It includes antiquities, byzantine art, sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs and metal, glass and textile works ...

MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art is one of the great museums of Athens. It houses a magnificent collection of artifacts of Cycladic art. The museum was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris ...

MUSEUM OF GREEK FOLK ART The Museum of Greek Folk Art is a museum in Athens, Greece. The museum was founded in 1918 as the Museum of Greek Handicrafts in the Tsisdarakis Mosque in Monastiraki. In 1973 the most of the collection and the main functions of the museum were moved to 17 Kydanthinaion Str. in Plaka and the mosque was annexed to it ...

ILIAS LALOUNAS JEWELRY MUSEUM Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum is a museum in Athens, Greece, created by the renowned Greek jewellery designer Ilias Lalounis. It is comprised by 24 collections of a total of over 4,000 jewels and small ornaments dedicated to the history and art of jewellery making. The permanent exhibition displays 3000 pieces designed in the period 1940-1992 ...

NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM The National Archaeological Museum of Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity. It is considered one of the great museums in the world and contains the richest collection of artifacts from Greek antiquity worldwide ...

NUMISMATIC MUSEUM The Numismatic Museum in Athens is one of the most important museums of Greece and houses one of the greatest collections of coins, ancient and modern, in the world. The museum itself is housed in the former mansion of Heinrich Schliemann, the famous archaeologist, formally known as Iliou Melathron (Palace of Ilion) ...

SYNTAGMA METRO ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION The Syntagma Metro Station Archeological Collection is a museum in Athens, Greece. It is located at the Syntagma station of the Athens metro and it features a variety of historical items unearthed during the process of building the metro ...

UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ATHENS The Athens University Museum is a museum in Plaka, Athens, Greece. The building was a structure of the Ottoman period but fundamentally restructured between 1831 and 1833 by Stamatios Kleanthis and Eduard Schaubert for their architectural office. From 1837 to 1841 it housed the newly founded University of Athens ...

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