What to visit in Athens

National Archeological Museum
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The National Archaeological Museum is one of the most important museums of ancient Greek art in the world.
The collections list more than 11,000 artifacts and provide a panorama of Greek civilization from prehistory to antiquity.
Permanent and temporary collections are exhibited such as prehistoric finds, sculpture, metalwork, pottery, miniatures and frescoes from Santorini.

Address: 44,Patision str. Athens
Tel. +30 213214 4800
Opening hours: Monday 13.00 - 20.00, Tuesday - Sunday : 08:00-15:00
Website : www.namuseum.gr

Museum of Acropolis
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The New Acropolis Museum opened its doors in 2009. Hosts the findings of the Acropolis Archaeological site , covering a period from the Mycenaean period to the Roman and early Christian Athens.

It houses over 4000 exhibits significant parts of the pediments of the Parthenon and the Caryatids.
The architectural design belongs to Bernard Tschumi and combines three concepts: light, movement and architectural planning.

Address : 15 ,Dinysiou Areopagitou str. Athens,
Tel. +30 210 9000900
Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday : 08:00-20:00

Website : www.newacropolismuseum.gr

Stavros Niarxos Foundation Cultural Center
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Niarchos’s legacy continues into the twenty-first century with the establishment of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Working in Greece and internationally, the Foundation began its grantmaking efforts in 1996, and it derives its mission from Niarchos´s commitment to Greece and Hellenism, as well as his keen instincts and interests in support of causes in the fields of education, social welfare, health, and arts and culture.
By designating a significant part of his estate to establish the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Stavros Niarchos created an enduring vehicle to enriching the lives of others worldwide.

Website : http://www.snf.org/en/
and www.snfcc.org/default.aspx

Museum of Cycladic Art
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The Museum of Cycladic Art is dedicated to the study and promotion of ancient cultures of the Aegean and Cyprus, with special emphasis on Cycladic Art of the 3rd millennium BC.

It was founded in 1986, to house the collection of Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris. Since then it has grown in size to accommodate new acquisitions, obtained either through direct purchases or through donations by important collectors and institutions.

Today, in the galleries of the MCA the visitor can approach three major subjects:

Cycladic Art, Ancient Greek Art, Ancient Cypriot Art

http://www.cycladic.gr/frontoffice/portal.asp?cpage=NODE&cnode=1&clang=1

Benaki Museum
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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.

web: http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?lang=en

http://benakishop.gr/en/

Byzantine & Christian Museum
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The Byzantine and Christian Museum, which is based in Athens, is one of Greece’s national museums. Its areas of competency are centred on – but not limited to – religious artefacts of the Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, post-Byzantine and later periods which it exhibits, but also acquires, receives, preserves, conserves, records, documents, researches, studies, publishes and raises awareness of.

The museum has over 25,000 artefacts in its possession. The artefacts date from between the 3rd and 20th century AD, and their provenance encompasses the entire Greek world, as well as regions in which Hellenism flourished. The size and range of the collections and value of the exhibits makes the Museum a veritable treasury of Byzantine and post-Byzantine art and culture.

web: http://byzantinemuseum.gr/en/
Virtual Tour: http://www.ebyzantinemuseum.gr/?i=bxm.en.virtual-tour

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST)
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National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST)
Kallirrois Ave. & Amvr. Frantzi Street (former FIX factory)
Athens, Greece, 117 43

Tel.: + 30 211 1019000-99
Fax: + 30 211 1019111
web: http://www.emst.gr/
e-mail: [email protected]