The National Historical Museum of Athens is housed in an impressive neoclassical building in the heart of the city, within walking distance from Syntagma and Omonia. This building, located at the beginning of Stadiou Street, once housed the Greek Parliament, but became a museum when the Parliament moved to its current home at Syntagma. At first, on the site of Read more…

It is located at the southeast corner of the Acropolis rock. It was built to house the huge exhibits found during the excavations at the Acropolis, which were too many to fit in the former small Acropolis Museum. This new Acropolis Museum basically houses excavated material from the Acropolis of Athens and from some other excavations in areas of Attica, Read more…

The Athens Numismatic Museum is now housed in the Ilium Melathron, the mansion of the archaeologist Erikus Schliemann, the work of the architect Ernst Schiller. Its permanent exhibition presents the history of coinage as well as the manufacture, dissemination, use and iconography of coins in the time of their minting in the ancient Greek world. The exhibition continues on the Read more…

The Stoa of Attalos is an impressive building in the archaeological site of the Ancient Agora in Athens. Originally constructed from 159 BC to 138 BC, this building was donated to the Athenians by Attalus II, King of Pergamos, and his wife, as stated on a plaque outside the Stoa. The building had two floors and two rows of marble Read more…

The Elefsina Archaeological Museum is housed in the archaeological site of Elefsina and is one of the first museums of the Greek state. It is currently not accessible to the public and will remain closed until 2022 for maintenance work. The building was constructed in 1890 with Germanos Kaveraus as architect. It was originally intended to house the archaeological finds Read more…

The National Gallery of Athens is the most important museum for the history of art in Greece. It is located within walking distance from Syntagma Square, directly opposite the Athens Hilton Hotel. This gallery was founded in 1900 and its first curator was the important Greek painter, Georgios Iakovidis. The initiative for the opening of the gallery was the donation Read more…