| :: The National museum By visiting museums in Athens you will experience the history of Greece. There are more than 240 state or state-controlled museums in the country, exhibiting Greek art during four-thousand-years. Neo-lithic, classical, Hellenistic, Byzantine and post-Byzantine, as well as modern art can be found in the different museums. :: The National Archaeological Museum The National Archaeological Museum is the largest and most famous museum of ancient Greek art. Surely, it is the best museum of Greek artifacts. This museum contains artifacts from prehistoric times until the Byzantine period. :: The Acropolis Museum The Acropolis Museum contains the artifacts excavated on the Athenian Acropolis over the last century. Founded in the middle of the 19th century, the museum was renovated between 1949 and 1953 and consists of 9 exhibition rooms. After a tour in the museum you will better understand the history and foundation of Acropolis. You will find a large range of Greek sculptures from excavations on the Acropolis mountain. Among the most famous exhibits are the Moschoforos – an exceptional fine statue of a bearded youth of the 6th century BC, the Archaic Kores - statues of a young women offered to Athena and the Caryatids – statues of beautiful priestesses. :: The Byzantine Museum The Byzantine museum, founded in 1914, is located on Vasilissis Sofias Avenue, not far from Syntagma Square. The Museum can be proud of having one of the richest collections of Byzantine icons in the world. The large range of sculptures dates from the 4th to the 19th century and some of them are unique and important for a better understanding of Byzantine art and culture. :: Museum of the Ancient Agora of Athens The Museum is housed in the Stoa of Attalos, a reconstructed building of around 150 B.C. The characteristic feature of the museum is that the exhibits are all closely connected with the Athenian Democracy, as the Agora was the focus of the city's public life. Her you can see a large range of sculptures, coins, Clay lamps and many other objects in bronze, bone, ivory, and glass. Some of the most important items of the exhibition are the Aryballos, Klepsydra, Bronze head of Nike and the statue of a Nereid. |
:: Museums
Acropolis Museum
Archaeological Museum of Piraeus
Benaki Museum - http://www.benaki.gr/index-en.htm
Byzantine and Christian Museum
Frissiras Museum - http://www.frissirasmuseum.com/en/
Ilias Lalaounis Jewellery Museum
Museum of Cycladic Art - http://www.cycladic-m.gr/
Museum of Greek Folk Art
National Archaeological Museum of Athens
National Historical Museum
National Museum of Contemporary Art - http://www.emst.gr/
Nautical Museum of Greece
Philatelic Museum
Railway Museum of Athens
War Museum of Athens








