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All
the cultures that flourished in Greece are represented with many explanations
in English.The museum contains collection of: Prehistoric items, Sculpture,
Pottery and Minor art, Bronzes and Egyptian Art…
The museum also organises temporary exhibitions.
It also has a touristic shop with guide-books, post-cards, slides,
archaeological publications, posters, casts, copies, maps, videotapes
and toys are sold.
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information on the website of the Greek Ministry of Culture
| The
Byzantine and Christian Museum |
The Museum is located in the central neighbour of Kolonaki, 22 Vassilis
Sofias Av. The museum was founded in 1914 and houses an important
collection of Greek ecclesiastical art from the 4th century to the
19th century: Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons, sculpture, manuscripts,
wall paintings, mosaics, wood carvings and many objects (cloth, coins,
pottery…)
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information on the website of the Greek Ministry of Culture
| Museum
of Popular Instruments |
The museum is located in Plaka, 1-3 Diogenous Street and is housed
in the historical Lassanis Mansion, close to the Roman Agora. It has
a collection of about 1200 Greek popular musical instruments dating
from the 18th century to the present day.
The museum exhibits toumbelekia (pottery drums), daoulia (drums),
defia (tambourines), flogeres - souravlia - mandoures (flutes), tsabounes,
gaides (bagpipes), zournades (shawms), tambourades, laghouta (long-necked
lutes), outia (short-necked lutes), quitars , mandolins, dulcimers
but also koudounia (bells), massies (tongs with cymbals), simandro
(semanterion)… The mansion's garden often welcomes recitals of Greek
traditional music.
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information on the website of the Greek Ministry of Culture
The museum of Athens dedicated to the army of Greece
Information on the website of the Greek Ministry of Culture
| Museum
of the History of the Greek Costume |
Inaugurated in 1988, the museum is located in Dimokritou 7. It is
dedicated to the study of the Greek costume
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on the website of the Greek Ministry of Culture
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| The
archaeological museum of Kerameikos |
Important note: Due to renovation, the museum will be closed until
Easter 2004.
Kerameikos is located at 148 Ermou Street. The Kerameikos was the
city's cemetery from the 12th century BC to Roman Times. Despite it
central location, this site is between the greenest in Athens. The
museum houses stalae, sculptures, vases and figurine found on the
site.
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information on the website of the Greek Ministry of Culture
The museum is located in the central neighbour of Kolonaki, 1 Vassilis
Sofias Av. It houses the private collection of Antoine Benaki : Bronze
Age finds, work of El Greco, the famous Cretan painter, ecclesiastical
furniture and many other collections. It one of the most famous museums
of Greece. Today, a new Benaki museums have been founded in Pireos
Avenue in orfer to host modern art.
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site of Benaki Museum
The museum is located in Plaka, 17,Kydathineon Street. The museum
houses a rich collections of objects representaging all branches of
folk art from 1650 until today: embroidery, weaving, costumes, masquerades
and more.
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information on the website of the Greek Ministry of Culture
| The
Ilias Lalaounis Jewellery Museum |
The private museum is located in Makrigiani neighbour, 12 Makrigianni
Street. It is a centre of international studies which also exhibits
the creations of Ilias Lalaounis, a famous Athenian jeweler and goldsmith,
elected member to the French Academie des Beaux-Arts.
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information on the website of the Greek Ministry of Culture
| Paul
and Alexandra Kanelopoulos Museum |
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| The
Goulandris Foundation Museum of Cycladic Art |
The museum is located in the central neighbour of Kolonaki, 4 Neofytou
Douka Street.
It is a private collection of Cycladic art and Ancient Greek art of
great importance.
The Cycladic collection is composed of over 350 objects of the central
Aegean Area dated between 3200 and 2000 B.C.: marble sculpture and
figurines, pottery…
The Cycladic art is characterised by those figurine which inspired
many contemporary artists.
The Ancient Greek Art Collection includes artefacts from the Bronze
Age to the Roman times: pottery, terracotta figurines, sculpture,
metal and glass ware, jewellery…
More information on the website
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site Greek
Ministry of Culture
The Museum is located in Panepistimiou 12, Sytagma and exhibits some
six hundreds thousands 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.
There is also ten thousand volumes devoted to the special field of
numismatics, to history, to seals and to archaeology.
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information on the website of the Greek Ministry of Culture
The home and studio of Spyros Vassiliou (1902/3-1985) is now open
to the public as a museum and archive, hence becoming the principal
authority on the artist. The Atelier recomposes the artistic progression
of one of the most acclaimed, reputed and prolific exponents of contemporary
Greek art bydisplaying a large number of his works in a wonderful
setting just across from the Herodus Atticus Odeon, under the Acropolis.
The museum is located 5a Webster St., Acropolis Athens 11742 Metro
Acropolis
The museum is housed in the National Archaelogical Museum of Athens.
It exhibits an interesting collection of inscriptions from Attics
and other part of Greece: Decree of the Athenian people assembly,
Stele with building accounts and more...
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