‹🏛️ Museums›
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Gazi, Kerameikos & Metaxourgeio
🏛️ 25Alekos Fassianos Museum
The painter Alekos Fassianos's family home, an apartment block he remodelled with architect Kyriakos Krokos over two decades (finished 1996); opened as a museum to his work in 2023.
🏛️ 26Benaki Museum - Pireos 138
The Benaki's large contemporary venue in a converted industrial building, used for temporary exhibitions of art, architecture and photography.
Exarchia, Omonia & north centre
🏛️ 41National Archaeological Museum
Greece's largest archaeological museum, with prehistoric to late-antique finds: the Mask of Agamemnon, the Artemision Bronze and the Antikythera Mechanism.
Kolonaki & Lycabettus
🏛️ 52Benaki Museum - Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery
The former home and studio of modernist painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika (1906-94), now a Benaki branch showing his work and that of his circle, with views from the upper floors.
🏛️ 53Benaki Museum (main building)
The Benaki's flagship mansion, covering Greek art and culture from prehistory to the 20th century; its rooftop café looks over the National Garden.
🏛️ 54Museum of Cycladic Art
Museum built around the Goulandris collection of Cycladic figurines and ancient Greek and Cypriot art, also staging major contemporary art shows.
🏛️ 55Byzantine & Christian Museum
A national museum of Byzantine and post-Byzantine art (icons, mosaics, frescoes, manuscripts) in the 1840s Villa Ilissia, built for the Duchess of Plaisance, with a large modern underground extension and gardens.
Acropolis, Koukaki, Thissio & Petralona
🏛️ 75Benaki Museum of Islamic Art
The Benaki's Islamic collection (ceramics, metalwork, textiles, carved woodwork from the 7th-19th c.) in two neoclassical mansions. Part of the ancient city wall is visible in the basement, and there is a rooftop café facing Kerameikos.
🏛️ 76Acropolis Museum
Bernard Tschumi-designed museum (opened 2009) for finds from the Acropolis, including the Parthenon gallery; glass floors show the excavations below.