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MUSEUMS

The Museum of the Acropolis

It is one of the most important museums in the world. It houses masterpieces of the ancient Greek civilization. Many of the unique works of art that ornamented the Acropolis have been stolen and transferred abroad. The museum contains the stone sculptures from the monuments of the Acropolis and from the excavations on the site. The collections of the museum include:  Sculptural offerings of the Archaic period, Pediments of temples dated to the Archaic period, Archaic Horseman, Sculptures of the "Severe" style, Pediments and metopes from the Parthenon, the Parthenon frieze, the Erechtheion frieze, Parapets of the Athena Nike temple, Frieze of the Athena Nike temple, the Caryatids, Clay figurines and vases from the sanctuary of the Nymphs.

Tel: +30 210 3236665

Summer Opening Hours (April to October) :

Tuesday – Sunday : 08.00 – 19.00  &  Monday : 11.00 – 19.00

Winter Opening Hours  (October to March) :

Tuesday – Sunday : 08.30 – 14.30  &  Monday : 11.00 – 14.30

Closed on Public Holidays.

Entrance fee per person :  12 €  - Ticket is valid for Acropolis site and museum, Ancient Agora, Theatre of Dionysos, Kerameikos, Olympieion, Roman Agora.

The Museum of the Ancient Agora

Τhe Agora 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.  The collections of the museum include: Finds from the wells, deposits, burials, workshops and sanctuaries, Clay, bronze, bone, ivory, and glass objects, Sculptures ,Coins, Pottery, Inscriptions, Collection of Amphoras.

Address: 24 Adrianou Street, Thissio - Tel: +30 210 3210185
Opening Hours: daily  07.30 – 19.15
Closed on Mondays and Holidays. 
Entrance fee per person: 4 €

The Kerameikos Museum

Exhibits dating back to 840 B.C, and are displayed by chronological order including Mycenaean to Roman times.

Address: 148 Ermou Street - Tel: +30 210 3463552

Opening Hours: daily 08.00 - 14.30 -  Closed on Mondays and Public Holidays. 

Entrance fee per person : 2 €

*TEMPORALLY CLOSED UNTIL MAY 2004 DUE TO RENOVATIONS WORKS*

The National Archaeological Museum

It is the most important archaeological museum in Greece and one of the richest in the world concerning ancient Greek art. Its collections are representative of all the cultures that flourished in Greece.  The museum contains collections of  Prehistoric items, Sculpture, Pottery and Minor art, Bronzes, Egyptian Art.

Address: 44 Patission Street  - Tel: +30 210 8217717 

Opening Hours: Summer period on Monday 12.30 – 19.00, Tuesday to Friday 08.00 – 19.00, on Saturday and Sunday 08.00 – 15.00.  Winter period daily 08.00 -14.30 and on Monday 10.30 - 17.00. Closed on Holidays. 

Entrance fee per person: 6 €

*TEMPORALLY CLOSED UNTIL MAY 2004 DUE TO RENOVATIONS WORKS*

The National Historical Museum

The National Historical Museum belongs to The Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, which was founded in 1882 for the purpose of collecting, saving and presenting relics and documentary evidence relating to modern Greek history. It is the oldest museum of its kind and it includes rich collections. The museum is housed in the  Old Parliament Building, which is an architectural jewel in the centre of Athens, while its grand congress hall is a place of historic significance.

Address: 13 Stadiou Street - Tel:  +30 210 3237315

Opening Hours: daily 09.00 – 14.00

Closed on Mondays and Holidays 

Entrance fee per person: 3 € - Free entrance on Sundays

The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum

The National Art Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, is the most important institution in Greece devoted to the subject of the history of Greek and Western European art.

Address: 50 Vassileos Konstantinou Avenue - Tel: +30 210 7235857

Opening Hours: daily 09.00 – 15.00  &  Sunday  10.00 – 14.00

Closed on Tuesday and Public Holidays

Entrance fee per person: 6 €

The Museum of the Cycladic Art

The museum houses collections of Cycladic Art coming from Cyclades islands period between 3200 and 2000 BC and Ancient Greek Art including Greek artefacts from the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) through to the Late Roman period (4th century AD).

Address: 4 Neofytou Douka street -
Tel: +30 210 7228321

Opening Hours:
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10.00 – 16.00 00 & Saturday  10.00 – 15.00 
Closed on Tuesdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.
Entrance fee per person: 3,50 €

The Byzantine Museum

The Byzantine Museum was founded in 1914 and it is housed in the "Ilisia" mansion, built in 1848. The collections of the Byzantine Museum show the course of Greek art from the 4th to the 19th century. The Museum collections include: Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons, sculpture, wall paintings, mosaics, wood carvings, bronze engravings, lithographs. 

Address: 22 Vassilis Sofias Avenue. Tel: +30 210 7231570.

Opening Hours: 08.30 - 15.30.  Closed on Mondays and Holidays. 

Entrance fee per person: 4 €

The Benaki Museum

The museum is a great benefaction of extensive collections covering several different cultural fields as Greek Art Collection that includes Prehistoric Ancient Greek and Roman collections, Byzantine, post-Byzantine and Neo Hellenic collections, Ecclesiastical Art, Paintings, Drawings and Prints,  Coptic Art Collection, Chinese Art Collection, Islamic Art Collection.

Address: 1 Koumbari Street & Vas. Sofias - Tel: +30 210 3671000

Opening Hours:  Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday  09.00 – 17.00  &  Sunday   09.00 – 15.00  &  Thursday  09.00 – 24.00

Closed on Tuesday and Holidays. 

Entrance fee per person: 6 €

The Museum of Greek Folk Art

The Museum of Greek Folk Art was founded in 1918 and until 1973 it was housed in the Tzami in Monastiraki Square. The Museum owns rich collections of objects representing all branches of folk art as Embroidery, Weaving, Costumes, Masquerades, Shadow Theatre, Silver Work, Metalwork, Pottery, Woodcarving, Folk Painting, Stonecarving. The collections of the Museum of Greek Folk Art date from 1650 until today.

Address: Kydathinaion 17, Plaka – Tel.:  +30 210 322903

Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Friday  09.00 - 13.00 & 17.00 - 21.00,
Saturday & Sunday  09.00 – 13.00

Closed : on Mondays and public Holidays.

Entrance fee per person :  2 € 

Gallery of the Municipality of Athens

The Municipal Gallery of Athens is housed in a neoclassical building constructed in 1874. Almost all the Greek artists, whose creations marked the history of Greek art, are represented by some of their important works. Among its most interesting features are the collection of engravings, the full representation of the generation of artists of the '30s, the collection of works by the famous architect, Ziller, which are of artistic and historical interest and a large number of drawings of the Arts Sanctuary inspired from the Athens of their time.

Address:  51 Piraeos Street – Tel.:  +30 210 3243022

Opening Hours:  Daily: 09.00 - 13.00 & 17.00 - 21.00. Sunday 09.00 - 13.00
Closed on Saturday and public holidays.

Entrance fee per person: Free

The Museum of Popular Musical Instruments

The Museum of Popular Instruments comprises the collection of about 1200 Greek popular musical instruments dating from the 18th century to the present day. The Museum is housed in the historical Lassanis Mansion, which was built in 1842 close to the Roman Agora.

Address: Diogenous 1 street, Plaka - Tel: +30 210 3250198

Opening Hours: daily  10.00 – 14.00 except Wednesday 12.00 – 18.00

Closed on Mondays and Holidays.

Entrance fee per person: Free

The Museum of Eleftherios Venizelos

It houses a library and contains photographs and personal belongings of the greatest Greek Politicians.

Address: 2 Christoulada Street - Tel: +30 210 3221254
Opening Hours:  Monday to Friday  09.30 – 13.30
Closed on Saturday and Sunday.
Entrance fee per person: Free

The Goulandris Museum of Natural History

The museum was founded in 1965 in order to promote interest in the natural sciences, to raise the awareness of the public to the need to protect Greece's natural wildlife habitats and species in the danger of extinction.  The Museum includes large collections of insects, mammals, birds, reptiles, shells, rocks, minerals and fossils, from the rich natural wildlife of the Greek territory. The botanical collections number over 200.000 species of plants. In the exhibition rooms are presented in detail the variety and interdependence of the bio communities and the floral, animal and geological wealth of Greece.

Address:  13 Levidou Street, Kifissia -  Tel.:  +30 210 8015870
Opening Hours: Daily 09.00-14.30 – Closed:  Friday
Entrance fee per person :  2,39 €

The War Museum

Exhibition of war mementoes, the documentation and study of war history as well as the presentation of the struggles for freedom of the Greek nation from ancient times to the present day. Collection includes weapons uniforms, flags, maps paintings and sculptures.

Address: 2, Rizari Street and Vassislis Sofias Avenue - Tel: +30 210 7252974

Opening Hours: daily 09.00 – 14.00 
Closed on Mondays and Holidays

Entrance fee per person: Free

The Numismatic Museum

The Numismatic Museum of Athens, with a history going back to 1829, is one of the few of its kind in the world and the only such museum in the Balkans. The strength of the collection lies in some six hundred thousand coins covering the ancient Greek world, the Roman and Byzantine periods, western Mediaeval times and modern times, "hoards" (closed numismatic groups), weights, lead stamps, medals and precious stones. In addition there is an extraordinarily rich archive of documents.

Address: Iliou Melathron, 12 El. Venizelou Street - Tel: +30 210 3643774
Opening Hours:  daily  08.30 – 15.00
Closed on Mondays and Public Holidays.
Entrance fee per person: 3 € 

The Kanellopoulos Museum

The museum was founded in 1976, after the private collection of Paul and Alexandra Kanellopoulos was donated to the Greek state. The Neoclassical building on the north slope of the Acropolis was built in 1864. The collections of the museum include clay and stone vases and figurines,  bronze vases and figurines, gold jewellery, sculptures and inscriptions of the Classical, Hellenistic and Roman era, Byzantine coins and leadsealings, icons of the 14th-19th centuries, folk art  fabrics and elements.

Address: at the corner of Thorias and Panos Street - Tel: +30 210 3212313

Opening Hours: daily 08.30 – 15.00

Closed on Mondays and Holidays. 

Entrance ticket per person: 2 € 

The Jewish Museum of Greece

It is a historical and ethnographic museum that has the focus of its attention in the presentation of a vivid picture of Jewish history and tradition. Its collection consists of seven and a half thousand original artefacts, photographs, documents and archives.

Address: 39 Nikis Street, Syntagma - Tel: +30 210 3225582

Opening Hours: daily 09.00 – 14.30

Closed on Saturdays and Holidays.

Entrance ticket per person: 3 € 

Cosmos - The Foundation of the Hellenic World FHW

The Virtual Reality Areas offer a unique experience. Ancient cities and monuments that have been completely destroyed, with the help of technology come to life before your very eyes exactly as they were in the past. The exhibition areas also include, a selection of Hellenic traditional costumes, a projection room, an internet Café and a chronological display of Greek History..

Address: 254 Pireos Street, Tavros - Tel: +30 210 4835300 

Opening Hours: Monday to Friday  09.00 – 16.00 & Wednesday  09.00-20.00

Closed on Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.

Entrance fee per person: depends on activity and theme.

Entrance fee for virtual reality: 7,25 €  per theme per person