ATHENS MUSEUMS
The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the largest archaeological museum and one of the most important of all archaeological museums in Greece and exhibits some of the finest archaeological collections in the country. The museum actually narrates the Greek history from the prehistoric till the modern times.
Collections
The Prehistoric Collection, which includes works of the great civilizations that developed in the Aegean from the sixth millennium BC to 1050 BC (Neolithic, Cycladic, Mycenaean), and finds from the prehistoric settlement at Thera.
The Sculptures Collection, which shows the development of ancient Greek sculpture from the seventh to the fifth centuries BC with unique masterpieces.
The Vase and Minor Objects Collection, which contains representative works of ancient Greek pottery from the eleventh century BC to the Roman period and includes the Stathatos Collection, a corpus of minor objects of all periods.
The Metallurgy Collection, with many fundamental statues, figurines and minor objects.
The Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities Collection, with works dating from the pre-dynastic period (5000 BC) to the Roman conquest.
It also organizes temporary exhibitions.
Opening hours
Monday: 13:30 - 20:00 Tuesday - Sunday: 08:30-15:00
Closed on: 25 - 26 December, 1 January, 25 March, Orthodox Easter Sunday & 1 May
Address
44 Patission Street, Athens 10682
Tel: +30 210 8217724
http://www.namuseum.gr/wellcome-en.html
Acropolis Museum
The Acropolis Museum opened in July 2009 and it includes findings from the Rock of the Acropolis. This impressive building is entirely supported on an archaeological site and through glass you can "walk on" the ruins underneath you. The exhibits are such organized that visitors go on each floor according to the chronological order of the exhibits. On the top floor, there is the representation of the Parthenon Frieze, the most important exhibit of the museum. From the yard, you can enjoy the view of the Acropolis and the picturesque quarter of Makriyanni.
Galleries
The Gallery of the Slopes of the Acropolis
The Archaic Gallery
The Parthenon Gallery
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday: 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m.
The Museum is open every Friday until 10 p.m.
Monday: Closed.
Closed on: 1 January, 25 March, Easter Sunday, 1 May, 25 December and 26 December.
Address
The Acropolis Museum is located in the historical area of Makriyianni, southeast of the Rock of the Acropolis, on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, Athens. It is only 300 meters from the Acropolis
and approximately 2 kilometers from Syntagma, Athens main city square. The Museum entrance is located at the beginning of the pedestrian walkway of Dionysiou Areopagitou Street. The Acropolis
station of the Metro is on the east side of the Museum.
Tour Buses
A bus drop off point for groups is available at Hatzichristou Street and the entrance is at Mitseon Street.
http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/?pname=Home&la=2
Byzantine and Christian Museum
The Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens is one of the most important public institutions in Greece, established in the early 20th century (1914) in order to collect, study, preserve and exhibit the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine cultural heritage in the Hellenic territory.
Collection
The museum collection contains an important number (approximately 30,000) of works of art such as icons, sculptures, ceramics, ecclesiastical textiles, paintings, jewelries and architectural
elements (wall paintings and mosaics).
The permanent exhibition is divided in two main parts:
The first is devoted to Byzantium (4th -15th c. AD) and contains 1200 artifacts and the second entitled “From Byzantium to the modern era” presents 1500 artworks dating from the 15th to 20th
century.
Opening hours
May-October: Tuesday-Sunday: 08.00-20.00 Monday: 13:30-20:00
November - April: Tuesday-Sunday: 08.00 -15.00
Closed on: Monday (November-April), 1st January, 25th March, Good Friday (open: 12.00-17.00), Easter, 1st May,
25th-26th December
Address
22 Vas. Sofias Ave.,
106 75 Athens
Tel: +30 213 213 9572
http://www.byzantinemuseum.gr/en/
Benaki Museum
The Benaki Museum ranks among the major institutions that have enriched the material assets of the Greek state. It is also the oldest museum in Greece operating as a Foundation under Private Law. Through its extensive collections that cover several different cultural fields and its more general range of activities serving more than one social need, the Benaki Museum is perhaps the sole instance of a complex structure within the broader network of museum foundations in Greece.
This group of collections comprises many distinct categories totaling more than 40,000 items, illustrating the character of the Greek world through a spectacular historical panorama:
from antiquity and the age of Roman domination to the medieval Byzantine period;
from the fall of Constantinople (1453) and the centuries of Frankish and Ottoman occupation to the outbreak of the struggle for independence in 1821;
and from the formation of the modern state of Greece (1830) down to 1922, the year in which the Asia Minor disaster took place.
Opening Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 9:00 - 17:00
Thursday: 9:00 - 24:00
Sunday: 9:00 - 15:00
Closed on Tuesday and the following holidays: March 25th, May 1st, August 15th, October 28th, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, New Year's Day, Epiphany, Easter Day, Easter Monday, Clean Monday, Holy
Spirit Day.
Address
1 Koumbari St. & Vas. Sofias Ave.
Tel.: +30 210 367 10 00
http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?lang=en
National Historical Museum
The National Historical Museum belongs to The Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece (HESG), 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, which highlight the most representative phases of Neo-Hellenism, from the fall of Constantinople (15th Century) on. The National Historical Museum is also a research centre for Modern Greek History.
Opening Hours
Tuesday-Sunday: 09.00-14.00
Address
13 Stadiou Str.,
10561, Athens
Tel.: +30 210 3226370
Email: info@nhmuseum.gr
Museum of the Ancient Agora
Collections of the museum
Finds from the wells, deposits, burials, workshops and sanctuaries, (4th millennium B.C. - 7th century B.C.)
Clay, bronze, bone, ivory, and glass objects (6th century B.C. - 3rd century A.D.)
Sculpture (6th century B.C. - 3rd century A.D.)
Coins (6th century B.C. - A.D. 1831)
Pottery (6th century B.C. - 6th century A.D.)
Inscriptions (5th century B.C. - 2nd century A.D.)
Items included in public life (5th - 2nd century B.C.)
Clay lamps (7th century B.C.- 11th century A.D.)
Objects found in a deep well (10th - 1st century B.C.)
Pottery of the Byzantine period and the Turkish occupation (10th-12th and 17th centuries B.C.)
Amphoras (6th century B.C. - Byzantine times)
Sculptures from the peristyle of the stoa (5th century B.C. - 3rd century A.D.)
Sculpture and architectural parts of the Upper Stoa.
Opening Hours
Sundays in the period between 1 November and 31 March
The first Sunday of every month, except for July, August and September (when the first Sunday is holiday, then the second is the free admission day.) 27 September, International Tourism Day
Free admission for University students from Greece and the E.U.
Summer: Daily 08.00-20.00 Monday: 11.00-20.00
Address
24 Adrianou St.25,
10555 Athens
Tel: +30 210 3210185, +30 210 3214825, +30 210 3210180
Vorres Museum
The exhibits which are displayed in the "Pyrghi" are mainly Greek folk objects of everyday use, rare pieces of furniture, hand-made rugs of various types, troughs, large jars, millstones, stone well rims, a large pottery collection, interesting oil paintings and engravings which depict historic events of modern Greece, as well as various important ancient finds. Among the traditional exhibits there are also some more rare samples of furniture crafted in Italy, France and Spain, in the 18th and 19th centuries and which belonged to the Vorres family. This type of furniture is compatible with the Greek decorative tradition, since Greek sea captains of the time used to bring home with them - in particular to the fine homes on the islands - good pieces of furniture acquired during their travels to other European countries.
The Vorres Museum consists of a complex of buildings, gardens and courtyards, covering an area of approximately 80 acres. Its collections, which number over 6,000 items, span a period of 4,000 years of Greek history and art.
The Museum has been donated, of a cultural and artistic foundation to the Greek state by the Vorres family. The Museum is divided into two main sections.
The first section is a museum of Modern Greek art, which presents important works of art and sculpture created by Greek artists of the second half of the 20th century. A general survey of the works clearly shows the significant influence of classical, Byzantine and folk tradition.
The second section is called the "Pyrghi" (or tower) and is composed of a complex of two traditional rural houses, the remains of a stable and an old wine-press dating from the end of the period of Ottoman rule, in the early 19th century.
Address
1 Parodos Diad. Konstantinou,
19002, Paiania,
Athens
Tel: +30 210 6642520
Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulou Museum
The Pavlos and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum was established in 1976 following the donation to the Greek state of the collection of this name. It was originally housed in the listed neoclassical mansion of the Michaleas family in Plaka; it reopened in 2010 with the addition of a new wing built with a donation of the late Alexandra Canellopoulou. The Museum contains objects dating from the Prehistoric to the Modern era, highlighting the diachronic continuity of Greek art.
Opening Hours
Tue, Sun 8.30-15 Free Entrance
Winter: From the 1st of November until the 31 of March: 8:30-15:00
Closed every Monday
Address
12 Theorias & Panos St.
10555, Athens
Telephone: +30 210 3212313, +30 210 3251509, +30 210 3318873
Fax: +30 2109239023
Email: aepka@culture.gr
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¨Ilias Lalaounis¨ Jewelry Museum
The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum (ILJM) is a centre for international jewelry studies. On permanent display are the creations by Ilias Lalaounis, an Athenian jeweller and goldsmith,
elected member to the French Academie des Beaux-Arts. The Museum organises temporary exhibitions on various aspects of modern or antique jewelry and runs a series of educational and cultural
activities.
The ILJM operates as a non-profit cultural institution; following the combined approval of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance the Museum is a registered charity. The ILJM opened
to the public in December 1994. It is housed in the old Ilias Lalaounis workshop on the south slope of the Acropolis. The building, a beautiful 1930s house, was renovated by Vassilis Gregoriadis
on plans prepared by Bernard Zehrfuss.
The permanent exhibition displays 3000 pieces of jewelry and micro-sculpture from 45 collections designed by Lalaounis in the period 1940-1992. They include jewelry inspired by prehistoric
art, Bronze Age Greece, Greek jewelry from the Classical and the Hellenistic periods, Byzantium, the art of Persia, the Ottoman Empire and the Far East, as well as creations marking developments
in technology and science, from breakthroughs in biology to space travel.
The exhibition is documented by trilingual labels in Greek, English, and French. Guided tours are also given in German and Italian. A variety of videos in Greek, English, and French are available
for show at all times in a specially provided Projection Room. Actual jewelry craftsmen may be seen at work in the Museum's Model Workshop. There is a Cafe and restaurant on the ground floor, and
a roof garden with a view to the South side of the Parthenon. Souvenirs, books, and jewelry can be found at the Museum Shop.
Opening Hours
Tue, Thu-Sat 09-15 Wed 09-21 Sun 11-16
Free Entrance every Wed 15-21
Address
Kallisperi 12, Acropolis
Tel.: +30 210 9221044
http://www.lalaounis-jewelrymuseum.gr/en/
Vouros-Eutaxias Museum
The Museum presents the modern history of Athens, since it became the capital of the newly founded Hellenic State in 1834 under the first royal couple, Otto and Amalia. Your tour will also
include many other faces of Athenian history, culture and life. Several other collections and a series of typical late 19th century- early 20th century sitting and living rooms of the
Athenian aristocracy complete the different aspects of our city offered by the Museum.
Opening Hours
Mon-Fri 09-16 Sat-Sun 10-15 Tue closed
Address
5-7 Paparigopoulou St.,
105 61 Athens
Tel: +30 210 3246164, +30 210 3231397
Fax: +30 210 3220765
e-mail: mveathen@otenet.gr
http://www.athenscitymuseum.gr/index_en.html
Jewish Museum
The Museum was founded in 1977 to collect, preserve, research and exhibit the material evidence of 2,300 years of Jewish life in Greece. As a historical and ethnographical museum its main
interest is to provide a vivid picture of Jewish life and culture as it was during those centuries. The collection contains more than ten thousand artifacts (some of which are unique),
photographs, documents and archives, as well as the history of the Greek Jews.
The Jewish Museum of Greece was founded in 1977 in order to collect, conserve, research and exhibit the material evidence of 2,300 years of Jewish life in Greece. As a historical and ethnographic
museum, its main interest is to provide a vivid picture of Jewish life and culture as it was during those centuries.
The new building of the Museum houses its rich collection and infrastructure for the organizational needs and the visitor services it provides in a total area of 800 sq.m. The entire floor space
of the museum has been organized in areas for permanent exhibition of the Museum's collection with thematic modular exhibits, for periodic exhibitions, a contemporary art gallery, a video room.
It also includes an area for educational programs, a research library, a photographic archive and laboratory, a conservation laboratory and a gift shop.
The permanent exhibition illustrates subject areas such as the synagogue and religious artifacts, the Jewish holidays, traditional costumes, the Holocaust, the cycle of life and the history of
Greek Jews. Particular attention is paid to the Museum's educational role, especially with regard to intercultural education, programs for children & young people.
The Museum also organizes periodic exhibitions and events with subjects related to contemporary art, literature, poetry and music, in general every form of human expression, with a view to
covering cultural and artistic matters. In addition to presenting a vivid picture of the past, the Museum aims to explore the timeless, multi-faceted nature of Greek Jewry. As a centre for
exploration, familiarization and positive dialogue between memory and history, between individual and collective identity, it aspires to be an active cultural hive, strengthening the community
spirit and the feeling of continuity.
Address
39 Nikis St.
10 558 Athens
Tel.: +30 210 32 25 582
Fax: +30 210 32 31 577
E-mail: info@jewishmuseum.gr
http://www.jewishmuseum.gr/en/index.html
Museum of the Shadow Theatre "Spathareio"
The Museum was founded in 1965 by Eugeneio Spatharis and includes collections of Spathari's father, Greek and foreign, from 1947. There are also books, Greek and other languages, devoted to Shadow-Theatre, Judy puppets and marionetes, as well as posters, publications in newspapers and magazines.
The purpose of the Museum is to teach young people of this traditional art of the Shadow Theatre.
Some of the most important exhibits of the Museum are:
The classical figure of Karagkiozi. Designer Eugeneio Spatharis. The first color figure, was built in 1920
Black-and-white figures of traditional shadow theatre (1900-1930)
Color figures of various types
a) Odyssey, Perseus and Andromeda, b), c) Hercules, d) Ikaros and Daedalus, e) Theseus and the Minotaur
Address
Vas. Sofias & Ralli, Kastalias Square,
15 125 Marousi,
Athens
Phone: + 30 210 6127245
Fax: + 30 210 6127206
Laboratory and Shadow Theatre Museum Charidimos
The collection of family Charidimos
Opening Hours
Mon-Sat 10-20 Sun 10-14
Free Entrance
Address
Cultural Center of Athens "Melina"
Iraklidon 66 & Thessaloniki’s, Thisio
Tel.: +30 210 3452150
Cartoon Museum
The main part of the Museum is constituted by the Permanent Exhibition of Cartoons, mainly carricatures, comic strips and other kinds of sketches by Greek and foreign cartoonists. There is
also a library and archives.
Some of the most important exhibits of the museum are:
Comic strips by G. Grammatopoulos: "Proteus and Andromeda", on a script by B. Rotas, from the series "Illustrated Classics" published by Atlantis
Caricatures of cartoonists of the early years of the 20th century, from the satyrical review "Satanas",
Cover of the periodical "Phanos" by Phokion Dimitriades.
Opening Hours
Winter From 1st of November until 31st of March
8.30 – 15.00
Address
22 Liossion Str.,
10 438 Athens
Tel +30 210 5241492, +30 210 5242140
Fax +30 210 5246943
Phaethon Technological Museum, Classic Car
The Phaethon Technological Museum was founded in 2004 and is managed by a four member Administrative Council. The Museum’s newly built facilities are situated on the 32nd km of the Athens –
Lamia National Road towards Markopoulo, just half an hour’s drive from the centre of Athens, in a modern 7500 sq. building in a 100 acre estate. The visitors are provided with comfortable car
parking, a bar, a projection hall and a boutique.
Collections:
Classic Car Museum.
Watch Museum.
Museum of Physics, Electronics and Telecommunications.
Speedway combined with a Thematic Park for Traffic Education.
Outdoor exhibition section with Defense Material.
The Museum is equipped with a multi‐language automated tour guide system. Conducted tours can be arranged for groups of 20 or more.
Opening Hours
Monday to Sunday between 09:00 and 15.00.
Address
36o km Markopoulo - Oropos
Tel: +30 22950 39261
Email: info@phaetonmuseum.gr
Greek Car Museum
A journey through the history of the automotive vehicle models in the impressive collection Charagionis. You will see among others the Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing of Paul Newman, the 1959 Chrysler Imperial Construction's of Robert Plant, the 1979 Cadillac Seville Gucci with living room designed by the Italian fashion house
Opening Hours
Tue, Sat 12-21 Sun 11-18
Address
3rd Septembriou & Ioulianou
Tel.: +30 210 8816187
Railway Museum
The history of Greek railways through old locomotives, wagons, etc.
Opening Hours
Tue-Sun 09-13 Wed 17-20
Free Entrance
Address
Siokou 4 (Liosion 301)
Tel.: +30 210 5126295
Philatelic Museum
The Museum has been in operation since 1978. The hall on the first floor is intended for lectures, film projections and exhibitions. In the same space are also housed a library with
specialized books and magazines related to the history of the postal services and of philately.
The other two rooms are in the basement of the building and constitute the main exhibition area. Here are displayed postboxes, safes, postal stamping machines, bags and horns used by the postmen
and other articles of the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone Services. Also exhibited are a wide range of items related to stamps and the process of their printing. The Museum has a special date
stamping machine with the representantion of the head of Hermes.
Opening Hours
Winter: From 1st November until 31st March, 0830 – 1500
Address
Philatelic Museum
5 Square Stadiou,
11635 Athens
Tel: +30 210 7519042, +30 210 7519066
Epigraphical Museum
The Epigraphical Museum is unique in Greece and the largest of its kind in the world.
It safeguards 13.536 inscriptions, mostly on stone, which cover the period from early historical times to the Late Roman period. The museum is housed in the south wing ground floor of the National Archaeological Museum.
It comprises an internal and external courtyard (atrium), a lobby, eleven rooms, a large hypostyle Pi-shaped corridor, a gallery, offices, a laboratory for the conservation of inscribed
stone monuments and lavatories. Only the courtyards, lobby and four rooms are open to the public; the others are accessible only to researchers and staff.
The purpose of the museum, which is a Special Regional Service of the Ministry of Culture, is to safeguard, protect, conserve, display and promote the epigraphical collections that it contains.
The museum also aims to comprise photographic and impression archives and a specialised epigraphy library. Moreover, a digital catalogue of the inscriptions is currently under construction, so
that the collection can be accessible digitally to future visitors.
Opening Hours
From the 1st of November until 31st of March: 8:30-15:00
Tue-Sun 0830-1500
Monday: closed
1, 6 January, Shrove Monday, 25 March, Easter Days, 1 May, Holy Spirit Day,
15 August, 28 October, 25, 26 December: closed
Address
Epigraphical Museum
1 Tositsa St,
10682 Athens
Tel.: +30 210 8217637, +30 210 8232950
Fax: +30 210 8225733
E-Mail: ema@culture.gr
http://www.yppo.gr/1/e1540.jsp?obj_id=101
Athens University Museum
The Athens University Museum is sited in the heart of Athens city, in Plaka area, on the northern side of Acropolis. The Museum is located in the historical building of "Cleanthis Residence", also known as "The Old University" where the first University of the Greek Independent State operated during the period of 1837 to 1841.
The Museum’s building belongs to the pre-Othonian period of Athens. The first reference of the building is found in an oil-painting canvas of the painter J.Currey dated in 1674. The painting illustrates the visit of the Ambassador of France in Constantinople, Olier de Nointel, in Athens. At the present time, the painting can be found in the Museum of the City of Athens and is considered an important testimony of Acropolis’s monuments before their destruction from Morozini in 1687. In 1831 Stamatios Cleanthis, architect and urban-planner, bought the building from its Othonian owner, Zante Chanoum, and after restoring it, he began using the building as a residence and probably as an office. In April 22nd 1837 the Royal Edict of King Othona for the constitution of the University of Athens was published in the newspaper of the Greek Government. "Cleanthe’s Residence" was considered a significant option to house the first University of the Independed Greek state, as, at that period of time, it was one of the six larger buildings in Athens. On the 3rd of May 1837 the operation of the University was inaugurated which included the Schools of Theology, Law, Medicine and Philosophy. The University began its full function with fifty-two students, twenty-seven professors, which came mainly from French and German Universities, and six Bavarians. Seventy-five registered audiences, mostly public servants, attended the lectures, among of which was Theodore Kolokotronis, an important personality of the Greek Revolution.
From 1861, when Cleanthis sold his house to a private owner, until 1967, the Museum’s building passed into various owners and utilities. The proclamation of "Cleanthis Residence" as a "historical and listed building" was on 17th December 1945 from the Minister of Education Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas. On April 7th 1967 the building was granted, under presidential order, to the University of Athens, after several years of captations, with the term “to be used explicitly as a University Museum". It took another twenty years for the building to be inaugurated as a Museum with the exhibition of "Souvenirs of the University of Athens".
The prime exhibit of the Museum is the building itself. The Museums collections include hand-written books, old and rare editions, portraits of University’s professors, manuscripts, letters, diplomas, old scientific instruments of Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacology, medallions and various souvenirs of the University. Of outmost importance is the exhibition of the University’s flag, a work by Nikolaos Gyzis, made in Munich for the occasion of the 50 years since the foundation of the University in 1887.
The diversity of the collections and the unique view from the windows make the visit at the Museum a magical adventure in the world of science, art and history.
Opening Hours
Mon-Fri 9.30-14.30
Mon-Wed 18-21
First Sun every month 11 - 16
Free Entrance
Address
Tholou 5, Plaka
Tel.: +30 210 3689502-4
Fax: +30 210 368 9501
E-mail: museum@uoa.gr
http://www.history-museum.uoa.gr/index.php?langId=2
Marika Kotopouli Museum
The Museum was inaugurated on May, 1990 and constitutes a functional museum of modern art, able to house important exhibitions. The building, erected in 1926, was the holiday home of the great actress of the Greek Theatre, Marika Kotopouli. During the German occupation, the house was requisitioned by the Germans. Later it housed the Police Station of the area. Finally, with the support of the Association of Greek Actors, the Municipality, undertook to restore the house, which was classified as a listed building, and to show off its distinctive architecture and its beautiful interiors, where cultural activities of a high calibre are held today.
This Museum does not exhibit objects related to Kotopouli. The building itself is of value as a museum; for the time being it welcomes temporary exhibitions, while it offers a permanent
home to the artistic collection of Constantine Ioannides.
Opening Hours
Winter: From the 1st of November until the 31 of March: 08:30-15:00
Address
14 Panagouli St, Zografou
15 773 Athens
Tel: +30 210 7775950
National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos
The National Art Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, the most important institution in Greece devoted to the subject of the history of Greek and Western European Art, has been in operation, in its present form, since 1976.
Opening Hours
Monday & Wednesday: 9.00-15.00 & 18.00 - 21.00
Tuesday: closed,
Thursday - Saturday: 09.00-15.00,
Sunday: 10.00-14.00
Address
1 Michalakopoulou Str.,
11528, Athens
Tel: +30 210 7235857, +30 210 7232039, +30 210 7216560
http://www.nationalgallery.gr/site/content.php?sel=1
Macedonian Modern Art Museum - Alexandros Milonas
The mueum shows Features from all periods of the work of Alex Mylonas at least once every year to have the public to see different projects at each visit.
Opening Hours
Wed, Fri, Sat 11-19 Thu 13-21 Sun 11-16
Free entrance for young people under 18 years old and student’s of higher school of Fine Arts.
Address
Square Ag. Asomaton 5, Thiseio
Tel.: +30 210 3215717
Laboratory of John Pappas
The atelier of the well-known artist it is open for the public so you can see the place who were working and the collection of paintings and sculptures of him
Opening Hours
Tue, Fr, Sun 10-14 Free Entrance.
Address
Anakreontos 38, Zografou
Tel.: +30 210 7773946
Institute of Fine Arts & Music ”V. & M. THEOCHARAKIS”
Exhibitions, concerts, seminars, lectures and other activities
Opening Hours
Mon, Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun 10-18 Thu, Fri 10-21
Address
Vas. Sofias 9 & Merlin
Tel.: +30 210 3611206
Art Collection of the National Bank
The art collection of the National Bank began to formed from the time the bank itself was founded in 1841. This collection is considered to be of a museological nature, since it includes
approximately 1,300 original works by leading 19th and 20th century artists in the fields of painting, sculpture and engraving.
The core of the collection consists of works by the finest of the Munich School, Nikiphoros Lytras, K. Volonakis, N. Ghyzis and others, as well as works of leading sculptors such as I. Kossos,
the Fytalas brothers and of their immediate followers M. Tombros, Th. Apartis and others.
This important collection was enriched by works by the precursors of the generation of the 30's, such as Costas Parthenis, K. Maleas and others, by representatives of that generation: A.
Asteriadis, N. Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Sp. Papaloukas, Yiannis Tsarouchis, Spyros Vassiliou, N. Nikolaou, G. Moralis, N. Engonopoulos, G. Zongolopoulos, Memos Makris, Y. Pappas and those who
immediately followed them. There are also works by artists belonging to the generation between the two World Wars and the wartime generation.
Opening Hours
From the 1st of November until the 31 of March: 8:30-15:00
Address
86 Aiolou Str.,
10232, Athens
Tel: +30 210 3341822, +30 210 3341833
National Museum of Contemporary Art
The National Museum of Contemporary Art began its operation in 2000. Its foundation came to cover a huge gap that the decades long absence of an analogous institution for contemporary
international art had created in Athens.
Our decision to start immediately with exhibitions and namely of mostly critical and experimental character, even without premises or collections, was dictated by exactly this need. Exhibitions
of contemporary art were taking and still take place in Athens. But the responsibility of the Museum, which equally sets in the centre of its activities both works of art and the public, is not
to act circumstantially but based on a organized plan that is being realized from exhibition to exhibition and aims at awakening sensitivities and formulate critical thought and aesthetic
criteria: there are no museums without audiences.
Still, there are no museums without collections. Until 2013, when the reconstruction of the former Fix brewery which will be the permanent premises of EMST will have been completed, a remarkable
nucleus of works of art by Greek and international artists will have been developed, we compose collections of selective rather than encyclopaedic character, which promote advanced tendencies and
critical explorations of the artistic present but also its historical depths which reach as far as the second half of the 20th century. Our goal, both by exhibitions and collections, is to offer
all the Museum's visitors, which remains an unreservedly democratic institution, the "other" dimension which in our time cannot be conceived outside transcultural and ecumenical patterns.
Anna Kafetsi
Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art
Opening Hours
Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
Free entrance
Address
Vassileos Georgiou Β 17 -19 & Rigillis Street
Tel: + 30 210 924 21 11-2
e-mail: protocol@emst.gr
http://www.emst.gr/EN/Pages/default.aspx
Cycladic Art Museum
The most comprehensive private collection of Cycladic art. Includes figurines, utilitarian and ritual objects. The second floor housed the collection N. Zintili with 710 Cypriot
antiquities.
Opening Hours
Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat 10-17 Thu 10-20 Sun 11-17
Free entrance for children
Address
Neophitou Douka 4, Kolonaki
Tel.: +30 210 7228321-3
Athens Municipal Gallery
The Municipality of Athens began to put together its artist collection in 1923. The first work it bought was the sculpture by D. Philippotis, "The Fisherman", and it is interesting to note that half of the 2,355 works of art which the Gallery counts among its collection, were acquired during the period 1930-1940.
Opening Hours
Daily: 09.00 - 13.00 & 17.00 - 21.00
Sunday 09.00 - 13.00
Saturday Closed
Address
51 Piraeus Street,
10553 Athens
Tel: +30 210 3243022, +30 210 3243023
Fax: +30 210 3614358
Islamic Art Museum
Thirteen centuries (7th-19th a.c.) Artistic creation, with objects from the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, Yemen and the Iberian
Opening Hours
Tue, Sun 09-15 Wed 09-21
Free entrance every Wedsday and for young people under 22 years.
Address
Asomaton 22 & Dipolou, Keramikos
Tel.: +30 210 3251311
Experience in Visual Arts
Permanent representative collection of engravings of the Dutch artist MC Escher and V. Vasarely.
Opening Hours
Fri 13-21 Sat & Sun 11-19
Free entrance for Children under 12 years
Address
Iraklidon 16, Thisio
Tel.: +30 210 3461981
Children Art Museum
The Museum of Greek Children΄s Art, is a nonprofit cultural Association, unique in its kind in Greece and one of the very few worldwide, was founded in 1994 by the Association of its Friends.
The Museum exhibits paintings and artworks by children up to 14 years old from all over Greece, which are renewed on a regular basis.
Opening Hours
Tues-San 10-14 Sun 11-14
The Museum is closed on Mondays, official holidays and 1-31 August.
Free entrance for children
Address
Kodrou 9, Plaka
Tel.: +30 210 3312621, +30 210 3313734
http://www.childrensartmuseum.gr/english/news2005.asp
Emotions Museum of Childhood
It is a children’s museum which uses interactive exhibitions, play and fairy tales, in order to encourage children to discover their emotional world, to learn more about themselves and others. Moreover, it sensitises adults, parents and teachers on subjects which deal with the children’s emotional development and socialisation.
Opening Hours
For school groups
Monday to Friday: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
For visitors
Saturday and Sunday: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Address
Karatza 7 & Tsami Karatasou,
Filopapou, Athens
Tel.: +30 210 9218329
Museum of Greek Folk Art
Rich collections of folk embroideries, textiles, costumes, etc.
Annexes:
A collection of pottery B. Kyriazopoulou
Opening Hours 9 am-2.30 pm Closed Tues
Address Areos 1, Monastiraki Square
Pan Road Building 22, "People and tools. Aspects of labor in pre-industrial society "
Opening Hours Tue-Sun 9 am-2.30 pm
Bath of the Winds the only surviving steam of Athens
Opening Hours 9 am-2.30 pm except Tues
Address Kyrristou 8, Plaka
Free for students, and the first Sun of every month
Address
Kydathinaion 17, Plaka
Tel.: +30 210 3229031
Greek Folk Musical Instruments
Popular but also "forgotten" music instruments from the 18th century, from the collection of Phoebus Anoyanakis
Opening Hours
Tue, Sun 10-14 Wed 12-18
Free entrance
Address
Diogenous 1-3, Plaka
Tel.: +30 210 3250198, +30 210 3254119
Tactual Museum
For people with problems of seeing and not only
Opening Hours
Monday-Friday 09-18
Free entrance for handicapped individuals and their companions
Address
Doiranis 198
Kallithea, 176 73
Τel.: (+30210) 941 5222
Fax: (+30210) 941 5271
e-mail: fte@otenet.gr
http://www.tactualmuseum.gr/indexe.htm
Center Study of Modern Pottery
The Greek utilitarian pottery of modern times (early 19th - mid 20th century)
Opening Hours
Mon-Fri 10-15
Free Entrance for children and people over 65
Address
Melidoni 4-6, Keramikos
Tel.: +30 210 3318491-6
Santa Strati Museum (Political Exiles)
The modern Greek political history, focusing on exile, political persecution and violation of human rights through photographs, archival documents and objects
Opening Hours
Mon-Fri 10-13
Free Entrance
Address
Ag. Asomaton 31,
Keramikos
Tel.: +30 210 3213488
Coins Museum
Collections of coins from ancient Greece to the present day
Opening Hours
Tue-Sun 8.30-15
Free entrance for students
Address
Panepistimiou 12
Tel.: +30 210 3643774
http://www.nma.gr/index_en.htm
War Museum
War relics from prehistoric times to 1945
Opening Hours
Tue-Sun 9.30-13.30
Free Entrance
Address
Vas. Sofias & Rizari 2, Kolonaki
Tel.: +30 210 7244464
Theatre Museum
Relics of the Greek theater of the 19th and 20th century
Opening Hours
Mon-Fri 10-15
Free Entrance
Address
Akadimias 50
Tel.: +30 210 3629430
Eleftherios Venizelos Museum
The Eleftherios Venizelos Museum it was founded in 1986 and houses a library, a collection of photographs and personal items of Eleftherios Venizelos.
Opening Hours
Tu. - Sat. 10-13, 18-20 Sun 10 -13
Free Entrance
Address
Park of Freedom
Tel.: +30 210 7224238
Eleftherios Venizelos Foundation
Opening Hours
Mo-Fr 9.30 - 13.30
Free Entrance
Address
Crhistou Lada 2
Tel: +30 210 3221254
Eleftherios Venizelos (full name Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos 23 August 1864 – 18 March 1936) was a charismatic leader in the early 20th century. Elected several times as Prime Minister of Greece and served from 1910 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1932. Venizelos had such profound influence on the internal and external affairs of Greece that he is credited with being "the maker of modern Greece" and he is still widely known as the "Ethnarch". His first entry into the international scene was with his significant role in the autonomy of the Cretan State and later in the union of Crete with Greece. Soon, he was invited to Greece to resolve the political deadlock and became the country's Prime Minister. Not only did he initiate constitutional and economic reforms that set the basis for the modernization of Greek society, but also reorganized both army and navy in preparation of future conflicts. Before the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, Venizelos' catalytic role helped gain Greece entrance to the Balkan League, an alliance of the Balkan states against Ottoman Turkey. Through his diplomatic acumen, Greece doubled her area and population with the liberation of Macedonia, Epirus, and the rest of the Aegean islands.
In World War I (1914–1918), he brought Greece on the side of the Allies, further expanding the Greek borders. However, his pro-Allied foreign policy brought him in direct conflict with the monarchy, causing the National Schism. The Schism polarized the population between the royalists and Venizelists and the struggle for power between the two groups afflicted the political and social life of Greece for decades. Following the Allied victory, Venizelos secured new territorial gains, especially in Anatolia, coming close to realize the Megali Idea. Despite his achievements, Venizelos was defeated in the 1920 General Election, which contributed to the eventual Greek defeat in the Greek-Turkish War (1919-1922). Venizelos, in self-imposed exile, represented Greece in the negotiations that led to the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne, and the agreement of a mutual exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey. In his subsequent periods in office Venizelos succeeded in restoring normal relations with Greece's neighbors and expanded his constitutional and economical reforms.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREAS
Acropolis & the Surrounding Area
The most important archaeological area in Greece, the spiritual center of ancient Athens. The Rock of the Acropolis was inhabited since the Neolithic Age. In Mycenaean times were build fortified walls which protected the palace (the site of the Erechtheum) and their homes. The Parthenon the temple of Athena, dedicated for the salvation of the city and Athenian victories over the Persians. Built in the period 447-438 BC by Iktinos and Kallikrates and it is the largest temple of classical antiquity, with 8 x 17 columns, the culmination of the Doric order. Inside the temple stood the gold and ivory statue of Athena sculpture by Phidias, which unfortunately has been lost. The metopes depict the east side of Giants in southern Centaurs, Amazons in the western and north the fall of Troy. The east pediment, is the oldest and presents the birth of Athena. The central figures were lost in the early Christian period. In the western pediment of the Parthenon present the myth of Athena and Poseidon discord. The Parthenon burned probably by the Heruli (267 AD). In the 6th century converted into a Christian church. During the Frankish occupation (1205-1456) operates as a Catholic church and then as a mosque. The bombing of the Morosini (1687) attempt to distract from the Parthenon and to transfer them to Venice. In the early 19th denuded by the British diplomat Lord Elgin. The best preserved parts of pediments are in the British Museum today. The restoration of the Parthenon begun by the 1980 made under the highest standards.
The Erechtheion dominates the northern side of the Acropolis from the mythical king Erechtheus who gave his name of this Ionic temple (421 BC). In the Erechtheum was the ancient statue of Athena. The north arcade of the magnificent gate and generally in the Ionic unrevealed decor, from the base of the columns to the roof. On the east side there is a compelling series of six Ionic columns and pediment. On the south side is the porch of the Maidens (the originals are in the Acropolis Museum). The six daughters of the Erechtheion, symbol of female perfection and beauty, were later called "caryatids" in Honor of Artemis Caryatids. On the west side of the Erechtheion was dedicated to daughter of Cecrops, Pandrosos. n front of the porch of the Maidens and between the Parthenon and Erechtheum are the ruins of an ancient temple in the 6th century BC, dedicated to Athena.
On the southern slope of the Acropolis lies the "Odeon of Herodes Atticus", a Roman theater capacity of 5,000 spectators, built in 160 AD by Herodes Atticus in memory of his wife Rigillis.
Today hosts musical and theatrical performances.
The Theater of Dionysus is located next to the "Odeon of Herodes Atticus" and almost all ancient tragedies and comedies were played in this theater which has a capacity of 17,000 spectators and
with the around area filled could hold up to 30,000 spectators. The ancient theater divided into two parts ("theater" and "epitheater").
In the east side theater of Dionysus was the famous Conservatory of Pericles, (in ruins today). Built in the 5th century BC with the tissues of the Persian ships (from the battle of Salamis in
480 BC and was used for musical auditions. According to Vitruvius, the Conservatory was burned in the war against Mithridates (the invasion of the Roman general Sulla, 86 BC and then rebuilt by
the king of Cappadocia, Ariovarzani.
Above the theater stands the Monument of Thrasyllos 319 BC and in Christian times transformed into a church of Panagia Chrysospiliotissa. Higher up the monument there are two Corinthian columns, tripods foundations of Roman times. West of the theater are the remains of the sanctuary of the god of medicine, Asklepios, in 420 BC. It operated as a sanctuary, office, hospital and medical school. Between Asklepios and Herodion there were other, ruined monuments like the tomb of Hippolytus, the archaic fountain, the sacred of Earth Kourotrophos, the Demeter Chloe and the pandemic of Venus. Just below the Asklepieion remains the Stoa of Eumenes, who worked for the convenience of spectators at the Theater of Dionysos, and later the Conservatory. The large two-storey building built along with a donation of the king of Pergamon Eumenes II (197-160 BC).
Propylaea The imposing entrance, built between 437-432 BC designed by architect Mnesikles, is one of the masterpieces of classical architecture. The Mnesikles gave grandeur to the entrance similar to the temples that were on the Sacred Rock. The north wing was named because it was used as a gallery for the exhibition of paintings. The Doric columns outside the prevailing east and west. Inside the entrance are two tall Ionic columns.
Temple of Athena Nike Small, elegant Ionic monument was build by the architect Kallikrates around 426-421 BC, on a tower of the Mycenaean wall. It is dedicated to the goddess Athena, now
the prehistoric goddess Nike, protector of the entrance. Was demolished in 1686 by the Ottomans. The best view of the temple is one of the Propylaea.
Temple of Artemis
Located southeast of the Propylaea, arcade formed in shape with 10 Doric columns. Here worshipped the goddess Artemis. It is listed by the cult Vravrona, birthplace of Peisistratus in the
mid-sixth century BC.
Chalkotheke
East of the Temple of Artemis are the foundations of an oblong building 5th century BC, believed to be the Chalkotheke and was used mainly for storing precious metals offerings.
Hourglass: On the western edge of the Acropolis is the source Hourglass in a cave which formerly called Empedo. It changed name because its waters were once obvious and
sometimes lost. In 10th century AD, rocks fell into the fountain. In Christian times, onto the grassy ruins built the small church of the Apostles "the marbles". Later, the source was
buried under the rocks and forgotten. In 1822, when Athens was released temporarily from the Turks, discovered from the Greek archaeologist Kyriakos Pittakis and make it known to the Greek
chieftains.
Sanctuary of Apollo: Near Hourglass is the cave-temple of Apollo. The nine leaders "archons" of Athens, after the election and after having sworn came here to give oath. When
ending their service, they offered a marble slab with carvings of laurel and wreaths in memory of a successful tenure in the community.
Zeus Cave lightnings: Next to the cave of Apollo, is a second cave dedicated to Zeus. The father of gods also named as "Olympian", "Astrapaios" and "Keravnos". From literary sources we know that the cave of Zeus gathered the lightnings of "Pythaistes" every spring and waited for the lightning, (a sign of Zeus), from the top "Chariot" Parnitha to begin their journey to Delphi. The "Pythaistes" were the elite Athenian citizens representing the city and returning from the Delphi brought new fire "neon light" to clean the temples of Athens.
Cave of Pan: East of the cave of Zeus lightnings, found another small cave, dedicated to the god of forests and shepherds, "Pan". The worship of Pan in Athens came after
the victory against the Persians at Marathon in 490 BC, according to the testimony of Herodotus. The Athenians honoured "Pan" here every year. Carved on the rock niches where small touching
tributes, such as figurines, flutes, and even treats. The cave of Pan is known from the work of Aristophanes' Lysistrata. In Christian times, the sacred cave of goat-footed god is the church of
St. Athanasius.
Agraflos & Ersis: From the latest research and studies assumed that this is sacred Ersis while Aglafros daughter of Cecrops was the most beloved princess of the Athenians.
The cave is a fountain that was formed when the Mycenaeans immure the Acropolis (second half of the 13th century BC). The opening was on the Acropolis near the Erechtheum. A landslide of rocks
covered up the source, but not the top which used as a secret exit from the Acropolis. In modern Greek history during the Nazi occupation, the evening of 30 May 1941 two new students, Manolis
Glezos and Apostolos Santas, passed through the opening, fooling the guards and quietly approached the Nazi flag and took it down. After the release identified as the first in Europe
resistance.
Sanctuary of Aphrodite Kipois: The worship of Venus was worshipped as a goddess of love and fertility. The ceremony "arriforon" revived an ancient agriculture custom that was designed to enhance fertility of the earth.
On the same place are inscriptions of Venus.
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Going for a walk on the North side of the Acropolis, we can see outside the fence, Anafiotika district. White small houses with narrow streets and similar of the villages in Cyclades
islands. This picturesque neighbourhood built in the mid-19th century.
Keramikos cemetery of ancient Athens
The official cemetery of ancient Athens from the 11th century until the 2nd century AD Includes part of the ruins of ancient city walls with the Sacred Gate and the Dipylon. The most important part is the Street of Tombs, the right and left of which were the graves of rich Athenians. The area of Kerameikos was named because of the existence of many pottery workshops.
The walls of ancient Athens: the distinguished "lithologimata", the three successive rows of stones dating back to classical times.
Ceramic Gates - Sacred Gate - Dipylon: The official entrance to the city. These gates divided the region into inner and outer Kerameikos, where there were the tombs. From the Sacred Gate began
the Sacred Street leading to the Sanctuary of Demetra to Elefsina. From the Dipylon began the procession that went to the Acropolis during the Great Panathenaic festival. The Dipylon was the
largest gate of the ancient world.
Outside the Dipylon began the grand street Kerameikos the "Road to Akadimeian", 39 meters wide and 1.5 km. Left at Kerameikos ancient street, is the "State Signal" or "Polyandreion" which bury the ashes of Athenians who fell in war. Here, Pericles delivered his famous "Epitaph" speech to honor the first dead of the Peloponnesian War. In the inner Kerameikos, within the walls, there was the "Pompeion" building in preparation for the transmitters, which had three different phases of construction (400 BC 2nd century AD., 4th century AD). At the entrance of Pompeo, rises an impressive entrance and in front of him stretched a spacious square. Here, every four years formed the Panathenaic procession.
Kerameikos Museum: Includes a wide variety of funerary vessels from the 11th century BC-2nd century AD.
148 Ermou Str,
Tel.: +30 210 3463552
Opening Hours
Mon-Sat 08-20 Sun 8.30-15
Free entrance for students
Ancient Market (Agora)
The Ancient Market (Agora) is located east of Thisio. Here was the government and the authorities, the heart of economic and political center of Athens in ancient times. In 480 BC the Persians destroyed all the buildings but there were rebuilt in a more glamorous way.
Royal Stoa: It was built in the 5th century BC and is now buried beneath the train tracks.
Stoa of Hermes: On the north side of the Agora included wonderful paintings of “Polygnotus”.
Tholos: A circular building was the headquarters of the social democratic administration of 50 rectors who ruled the tenth time (36 days).
Altar of Zeus Agoraios: Located on the south side of Market.
On the west side of Market, under the Thissio was the “Stoa of Zeus Elefthereos”, the temple of “Apollo Patroos” small Ionic temple 4th century BC, the parliament, the temple of the Mother of the gods, which were kept the public files, the canopy where they ate every day, monument of the Eponymous Heroes. The other side of the market are shopping arcades.
Stoa of Attalos: Located on the north side built by King Attalos II. The columns of the ground floor is Doric columns and the floor is Ionic.
Prison of Socrates: One hundred meters from the southwest edge of the market.
In the south was the court of “Heliaia”, the famous Fountain “Enneakrounos”, and the “Argyrokopeio” minted coins of Athens. The market crossed the path of the “Panathenaic” festival.
In the Roman period build in the middle of the Agora, “the temple of Mars” (fifth century BC) and also the “Odeon of Agrippa”. In the SE of the Stoa of Attalos is a small public library “Pantainos”.
In Byzantine times build the “Stoa of the Giants” for educational purposes.
The Temple of “Hephaestus (or Thissio)”, built before the Parthenon on the low hill Agoraios Cologne, dedicated to the god of fire and metalworking, by the same architect, (his name remains unknown), who built the temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion and the Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnuda.
Roman Market (Agora): This is the natural extension of the ancient Greek Agora. Formed in Roman times, the second half of the first century BC, of Julius Caesar and Augustus. The building of Market (111 x 98 m) had a large rectangular patio surrounded by galleries, shops and warehouses. The surviving Ionic colonnade dating to the 2nd century AD. Best preserved columns are those of the south and east. In very good condition also retained the western entrance to the Gate of Athena Archegetis. South detected fountain and staircase. A second entrance - Ionic this time - range of shops and naming the eastern side, while the north remains prominent ruins of Vespasian, public toilets (first century AD). The Roman Forum became more important after the terrible destruction of Athens by the Heruli (267 AD) when many activities of the ancient Agora transferred to it.
Timetable Andronicus Kyrristou or Tower of the Winds
Situated west of the Roman Market (Agora). This octagonal tower built in the 1st BC century by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrro from Syria. An interesting building with a hydraulic clock mechanism, a combination vane and solar. Impressive are the reliefs of the winds with their symbols. In each of the eight sides of the embodiment shown a wind-Hence the name "Winds".
Address
Pelopida & Aiolou
Tel.: +30 210 3245220
Opening Hours
Everyday 08-20
Free entrance for students
Olympieion: The stadium was built in 329 BC by the Governor Lycurgus to host the athletic competitions of the Panathenaic, the biggest festival of Athenians honoured the patron goddess Athena. In 1896 began the first modern Olympic Games.
Hadrian's Gate: The Athenians built the gate to Honor the emperor Hadrian filathinaio. Under this gate spent glorifying when Hadrian came to attend the opening of the monumental temple of Olympian Zeus. The gate was the landmark separation of the old city of Athens and the new settlement founded by Hadrian. On the east frieze above the arch, there is still the legend "here is the city of Hadrian and not of Theseus". On the west side of the gate, the inscription "Theseus before the city", that from now is Athens, the former city of Theseus. Behind her there are the remains of the Temple of Olympian Zeus which is the largest temple in Greece.
Temple Olympiou Zeus (Dios): The most monumental and majestic temple dedicated to the father of gods, Zeus. It had 104 columns, but today are only the 15 and 16th is on the ground (there are three rows of eight columns on the east and west side and two double rows on the long sides). North of Olympic, in a small grove, stand the remains part of Themistocles wall and Roman baths.
Address
1 Olgas Str.
Tel.: +30 210 9226330
Opening Hours
Everyday 08-20
Free entrance for students
Library of Adrianos: It was built and donated to the city of Athens by the Emperor Adrianos in 132 AD in a rectangular shape (122 x 82 m). Archaeological site is fenced, but are visible from the outside. This impressive building partially destroyed by the “Heruli” in 267 AD but renovated in the first half of the fifth century AD. At the same time in the atrium space rises a central plan building, known as “tetraconch”, probably the first temple of Athena, luxurious, with beautiful mosaics.
Between 11th and 12th century is built on the current road “Ares” the church "Holy Asomati” (now demolished) and “Atrium” in the center of the Christian Byzantine church. On the southwest
side of the area was the “Voevodaliki”, residence and headquarters of the Turkish Governor of Athens, the “voivode”. Until the liberation (1833) the site of the Library functioned (as the ancient
Greek Agora) as administrative commercial center. The bazaar in the eastern part of the Library was burned in 1884. After the destruction began the excavation and opened to the public first time
in the summer of 2004.
Opening Hours
Mon-Sun 08-20
Free entrance for students
Address
Monastiraki
Inputs: a) Adrianou 24, (St. Philip), b) St. Paul, Thiseio, c) end of Polygnotu Str.
Tel.: +30 210 3210185
Opening Hours
Mon-Sun 08-16.30
Ticket € 12, people over 65 years € 6
(Applies to Agora, Kerameikos, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Dionysus Holy, Roman Agora, Hadrian's Library)
Free entrance on Sunday and for students
Tel.: +30 210 3210219
Hills & Municipalities of Ancient Athens
Supreme Court: A hill of 115m, dedicated to the god Mars, center of the Court of Athens in the period of aristocratic oligarchy ruled the city. Here according to "Acts of the Apostles" the Apostle Paul spoke of the Unknown God 50 AD.
Hill of the Nymphs - Pnyx (Pnika): A hill of 105 meters opposite the Supreme Court, next to Philopappos. It looks like an extension of the hill of the Muses. A landmark of the fifth century BC, "Dense Mountain", dedicated to the ethereal creatures, Nymphs. According to legend the nymphs conquer nature, and sometimes the souls of mortal minds. The Pnyx amphitheatrical area was oriented towards the acropolis. The hill of the Nymphs associated with the nearby hill of the Muses to arm the city's defensive wall, known as partitions.
Observatory: Built on the hill of the Nymphs by George Sina on projects of Theophile Hansen. In the same area is now the Seismological Institute. Northwest of the Observatory, where the great temple of Agia Marina, ruins of the old chapel 8th-9th. Very close to the point panorama, discovered traces of the Temple of Zeus and a little lower, the "kylistra" or "tsouliastra" in which came the Athenian women with difficulties to conceive.
Ancient Fortifications: During the last quarter of the fourth century BC, between the hill of the Nymphs and Filopappos, built new walls, northwest of the partitions Melitides Gates,
leading to Meliti, and the "Dipylon Gate" on the road, next to the church of St. Demetrius Loumpardiari.
Hill of the Muses Philopappos: Southwest of the Acropolis stands the hill of the Muses of 147m. He was a holy shrine dedicated to the Muses built by Demetrius Poliorketes. Here, during the Roman
Empire in 115 AD, with permission of the municipality, the funerary manument built Filopappos.
Ancient City of Meliti: He was among Agoraios Kolonos Areopagus and Pnyx which became part of the municipality. Together with the neighboring municipality of Hollow were the major cities of the
classical era.
Ancient City of Hollow: Starting from the hills of Pnyx, outside the later partitions and extended south of the hill was one of the most populated areas of ancient Athens. The last quarter
of 4th century BC transformed into a vast graveyard.
Ancient City Kolyttou: At the junction of footpaths Apostle Paul and Dionysius Areopagite with cobblestone paths we can admire the Acropolis. On top is a monument of the Roman Gaius Julius
Antiochus Philopappos-2nd century and also to the sanctuary of Dionysus, "Vakcheion" and "Amyneion".
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Lysicrates Monument or the Light of Diogenis: The unique monument kept intact until today and has established itself as an emblem of Plaka area. It is a circular marble building built by Lysicrates in 334 BC in memory of an artistic victory.
Holy Bride: Beside and in front of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus was a Holy Bride. Inside were wedding vases. The virgin women of Athens wanted the support of the Bride to be happy in their marriage.