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…
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…
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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…
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The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is located on Patission Avenue, near Omonia Square. The first Greek archaeological museum was founded in 1829 on the island of Aegina by Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias. When Athens became the capital of Greece in 1830, the Archaeological Museum was moved to different buildings, for example the Temple of Hephaestus in the Ancient Agora and Read more…
