Saturday, 27 April 2024

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The building of the Acropolis Museum had been a decades old dream that became a reality in 2009. In particular, the first discussions for building a museum for the Acropolis on the rock had began after the creation of the Greek Nation. ...more
Dionysiou Areopagitou 15, Acropolis, Athens, Attica, Greece 11742
The Museum of Greek Folkart was founded in 1918 by the poet, Georgios Drosinis In 1923, it was renamed the "National Museum of Decorative Arts". It was given its current name in 1959 and its exhibits project the Hellenic traditional culture. ...more
Kydathinaion 17, Plaka, Athens, Attica, Greece 10555
The Electric Railways Museum was created in 2005 by Electric Railway employee Manolis Fotopoulos, and with a collection of 2,000 items (exhibition & warehouse) with over 3,000 books, documents, and photos, it will constitute the foundation for its ...more
Akti Kallimasioti 275, Piraeus (Center / Port), Piraeus, Attica, Greece 18545
The Athens Olympic Museum was founded on 2021 and is located on the first floor of the Golden Hall shopping center in Marousi. Overlooking the Athens Olympic Center (O.A.K.A.), it now houses, for the first time in Athens, the Hellenic Olympic ...more
Leof. Kifisias 37A (at Golden Hall), Marousi, Attica, Greece 15123
The National Observatory of Athens (NOA), located atop the historic Hill of the Nymphs in the area of Thissio, is the first research center in the country and was inaugurated in 1846 by Baron Georgios Sinas, a Greek consul in Vienna and national ...more
Lofos Nymphon , Thissio, Athens, Attica, Greece 11810
One of the most recent additions to special interest museums in Athens is the Hellenic Motor Museum. It is found in the heart of the city, nearby Omonoia Square, at the impressive «Athenian Capitol» multi-activity complex. ...more
Ioulianou 33-35, Platia Victorias, Athens, Attica, Greece 10433
The Museum of Cycladic Art was established in 1986 and holds a large collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art owned by Nicholas and Aikaterini Goulandris. The exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art, and the temporary exhibitions organized ...more
Neofitou Douka 4, Kolonaki, Athens, Attica, Greece 10674
This is the first industrial museum in the city and aims at preserving as well as promoting the historical integrity and technology of the plant. It had supplied energy and lighting in the Athens metropolitan area for nearly 130 years ...more
Pireos 100, Gazi - Kerameikos, Athens, Attica, Greece 11854
The Museum of Asia Minor Culture was created by the Cultural Organization and the Association of Asia Minor "New Kydonia". It hosts relics (coins, books, photographs) and other souvenirs in an attempt to make the world more aware of the culture of ...more
Karaiskaki 6, Aigaleo, Attica, Greece 12242
The Hellenic Maritime Museum was the brainchild of Captain Gerasimos Zochios in 1867 during his service as Secretary General in the Ministry of Navy. Nearly 80 years later, in 1955, his vision came to life as the doors of the Nautical Museum opened ...more
Akti Themistokleous, Piraeus (Center / Port), Piraeus, Attica, Greece 18537
The Municipal Gallery of Piraeus was built in 1957 to function under the Library of the Municipal Theater. Τoday, after having changed many addresses, it is housed in the building of the old Post Office of Piraeus. In 1985 the gallery officially ...more
Filonos 29, Piraeus (Center / Port), Piraeus, Attica, Greece 18531
After 8 years of reconstruction work, the National Gallery of Athens is once again ready to welcome visitors. It houses more than 20,000 works of painting, sculpture, engraving and other art forms and is a treasury of Greek artistic creation from the ...more
Leof. Vas. Konstantinou 50, Hilton Area, Athens, Attica, Greece 11634