Athens Museums

The most important museums in the world are located in Greece.  You can meet the ancient Greek civilization or see artifacts from all over the country in some of the museums i suggest below.

The New Acropolis Museum

You have had the opportunity to visit the New Acropolis Museum,for about a year now. Everyone can admire all the antiquities-usually made of marble- which are unique in the world. ''Karyatides'', the famous women who support the roof of the temple with their heads being in a row like columns. There are also permant collections for all the ancient years and special events all over the year. You have a great view to the hill of Parthenon, the Theatre of Irodio and the Ancient Agora.

Site: New Acropolis Museum

National Archaeological Museum

The National Archaeological Museum is the largest museum in Greece and one of the world's great museums. Although its original purpose was to secure all the finds from the nineteenth century excavations in and around Athens, it gradually became the central National Athens Museum and was enriched with finds from all over Greece. Its abundant collections, with more than 20,000 exhibits, provide a panorama of Greek civilization from the beginnings of Prehistory to Late Antiquity.

Site: Archaeological Museum

The National Gallery

The National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum, as it was named upon its merger with the homonymous bequest, now houses more than 15,000 works of painting, sculpture, engraving and other forms of art and it is a treasury of Greek artistic creation from the post-Byzantine period until today. It also comprises a smaller collection of important Western European artworks.

Site: National Gallery

The National Historical Museum

The museum houses the collection of the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece (IEEE), founded in 1882. It is the oldest collection of its kind in Greece, and prior to its transfer in the Old Parliament, was housed in the main building of the National Technical University.

The collection contains historical items concerning the period from the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 to the Second World War, focusing especially in the period of the Greek Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the modern Greek state. Among the items displayed are weapons, personal belongings and memorabilia from historical personalities, historical paintings by Greek and foreign artists, manuscripts, as well as a large collection of traditional costumes from the various regions of Greece. The collection is displayed in the corridors and rooms of the building, while the great central hall of the National Assembly is used for conferences.

Site: Historical Museum

Old Acropolis Museum

The museum is home to many of the Greek world's ancient relics found in and around the Acropolis site since excavations started. It was designed by the Greek architect Panages Kalkos and was constructed between 1865 and 1874. It was expanded in the 1950s in a modern design executed by Patroklos Karantinos, a renowned Greek architect. The Acropolis Museum housed stone sculptures and bronze remains from the monuments of the Acropolis and some artifacts that are excavated on the site. It is located in the south-east corner of the Acropolis.

Athens Jewish Museum

In the center of Athens,39 Nikis str., you have the opportunity to visit the Athens jewish museum. Read more...