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Museum of Cycladic Art 4 Neophytou Douka Street, (off Vassilissis Sophias Avenue), Athens, 106 74 |
Considering that Greece enjoys (or rather puts up with) over eight million tourists a year, and given that most of them pass through Athens at some point, it is curious to note how poorly developed their museum shops are... more
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Museum of the City of Athens 7 Paparigopoulou Street, Klafthmonos Square, Athens, 105 61 |
Lambros Eutaxias was also keenly interested in cultural issues and was a renowned art collector recognized by the art lovers throughout Europe. He was also a great lover of Athens and therefore collected everything relat... more
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Jewish Museum of Greece 39 Nikis, Athens, 105 57 |
Greece's Jewish community, a strong presence throughout the country and a dominant force in Thessaloniki, was essentially obliterated in the Holocaust. Heart-rending exhibits here include the wedding photograph of Yosef ... more
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Byzantine Museum 22 Vassilissis Sophias Avenue, Athens, 106 75 |
, which has housed the museum since 1930, was designed in 1848 by Stamatios Kleanthis for Sophia de Marbois, the Duchess of Piacenza. The museum collection includes objects dating from the 4th to the 19th century, some o... more
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War Museum 2 Vassilissis Sophias Avenua and Rizari, Athens, 106 75 |
The War Museum of Athens was inaugurated in 1975. Its aim and mission is the exhibition of war memontoes, the documentation and study of war history as well as the presentation of the stuggles for freedom of the Greek na... more
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Numismatic Museum 12 Panepistimiou Street, Athens, 106 71 |
The walls inside are decorated with wall paintings copying Pompeian themes and the finds of Schliemann at Troy and Mycenae. With many activities, such as scientific and informative publications (in printed as well as ele... more
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Vorres Museum 1 Parodos Diadochou Konstantinou, Painia, 190 02 |
An old estate near the new Athens Airport is the site of the Vorres Museum. One of the museum's two collections contains objects of traditional folk art, pottery, rugs, antique furniture, paintings and many centuries-old... more
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Benaki Museum 1 Koumbari Street (off Vassilissis Sophias Avenue), Athens, 106 74 |
Greece's oldest private museum, established in 1926 by an illustrious Athenian family, the Benaki was one of the first to place emphasis on Greece's later heritage at a time when many archaeologists were destroying Byzan... more
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National Archaeological Museum 44 Patission Street (aka 28 October), Athens, 106 82 |
The museum is housed in an imposing neoclassical building of the end of the nineteenth century, which was designed by L. Lange and remodelled by Ernst Ziller. The vast exhibition space - numerous galleries on each floor ... more
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Museum of Popular Instruments 1 Diogenous Street, Plaka, Athens, 105 56 |
The objects of the Museum and Research Centre, as stated in the foundation charter, are as follows: 1) The collection, maintenance and display of popular musical instruments and generally of any material contributing to ... more
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