The Centre for the Acropolis Studies, housed in the Weiler Building, was inaugurated in 1987 by the late Minister for Culture, Melina Merkouri. It is a part of the new Acropolis Museum and its research workshops. The museum displays a series of casts depicting successive uses of the rock of […]
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Kerameikos Museum Kerameikos Museum, is housed directly in the area of Ceramicus (today’ s Kerameikos) -among the famous archaeological site of the Kerameikos necropolis. In 1863, archaeologists first started housing pottery and other artifacts found during the excavations of the site in a small, makeshift outpost. It was an exhibit […]
Female figure, ca. 2500-2400 BC. (picture The Walters Museum) The founders of the Museum of Cycladic Art, Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris, began to collect ancient artefacts and Cycladic figurines back in the ’60s. As time went on, the collection increased in size. Between 1979 and 1984, the Nicholas P. Goulandris […]
Museum history The Frissiras Museum, the only Museum for Contemporary European Painting in Greece, was inaugurated on November 27, 2000 by the President of the Republic Constantine Stefanopoulos and officially opened on December 4, 2000 by the Mayor of Athens Dimitris Avramopoulos. It was founded by the Vlassis Frissiras family, […]
Athens, the oldest and most famous city of Europe, presents part of her most recent History: the period commencing in 1832, when she was appointed capital of the newly-founded Modern Greek State by its first king, Otto. The tour of the Museum includes many other sectors of the History, Civilisation […]
The Epigraphical Museum of Athens The Epigraphical Museum (Greek: Επιγραφικόν μουσείον) of Athens, Greece, is unique in Greece and the largest of its kind in the world. Its collection comprises 14,078, mostly Greek, inscriptions, which cover the period from early historical times to the Late Roman period, primarily in Greece. […]
The original collections of the Mineralogy and Petrology Museum were created at the Natural History Society that was established in Athens in 1835. The University acquired the collections and housed them on its premises since its foundation in 1837.
The Natural History Museum was founded in 1964 by Angelos and Niki Goulandris, as a private non profit institution devoted to study and protection of natural environment, the first museum of its kind to be established in Greece.