Museums open on Monday in Greece

Founded by a Greek Collector Antonis Benakis, the Benaki Museum displays collections of historic and artistic artefacts. The collection includes pieces from all around the world - Byzantine art, Chinese porcelain and Greek paintings. There are also religious items, musical instruments, books, weapo

The Museum of Cycladic Art is a museum in Athens that houses the Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris collection. This couple started to purchase Ancient Greek antiques in the 60s, with a focus to objects of Cycladic art. In 1981, Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris decided that their collection should be perman

The Byzantine and Christian Museum is a museum in Athens that is located in the former Villa Ilissia that displays Christian art dating back to the third century. There are about 25,000 items, including sculptures, paintings, mosaics, frescoes and icons.

The Museum of Byzantine Culture is a history museum in Thessaloniki with a collection of objects from the 2nd to the 20th century, mostly consisting of coins, seals and small artifacts, but also sculptures and icons, all from Thessaloniki and Macedonia, from churches, private houses and cemeteries.

The War Museum of Athens (Athens War Museum) is a museum in the capital of Greece that is devoted to the Greek Armed Forces and that covers the history of war in all ages. This museum houses the historic arms collection of the Greek Ministry of Defense, including the collection of the Greek Army wit

The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum that is devoted to the history of Sephardic Jews and Jewish life in Thessaloniki. The museum holds monumental stones and inscriptions that were found in the great Jewish necropolis east of the city walls along with photographs that show the cemetery and

The Museum for the Macedonian Struggle is a history museum in Thessaloniki housed in a neo-classical building designed by architect Ernst Ziller and built in 1893. The museum is devoted to the Greek and Balkan history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It presents the local history and cultu

The Temple of Olympian Zeus, also known as the Olympieion, is a significant historical site located at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens. This vast temple, of Corinthian order, is a testament to the rich history and architectural prowess of ancient Greece. Today, only fifteen columns of the original structure remain, but these still offer a glimpse into the grandeur of the past.

The Numismatic Museum of Athens is a museum that is housed in the mansion of the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. The museum houses one of the greatest collections of coins in the world, both ancient and modern, containing 600,000 objects, mainly coins but also medals, standard masses, dies and st

The Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens documents as one of three museums (next to the Jewish Museum Thessaloniki and the small Jewish Museum Rhodes) the history of Judaism in Greece. Although Jews have been living in Greece since antiquity, the exhibits are mainly from the modern era. Parts of the sy

The Thessaloniki Cinema Museum is a museum in Thessaloniki that is devoted to Greece’s Cinema development. The museum researches and documents material in relation to the art of cinematography. The museum features a collection of displays not exclusively related to cinema that unravels as a film com

The Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments (The Museum of Popular Music Instruments) is a museum and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in Athens. The museum is housed in the Lassanis Mansion where it exhibits around 600 Greek musical instruments dating from the last 300 years.

The Athens University Museum is a museum in Plaka in Athens that is housed in the Kleanthis - Saubert House, one of the most historic buildings in Athens. It once was a structure of the Ottoman period, but it got completely renovated between 1831 and 1833. The Athens University Museum functions as a

The Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia - Thrace is a museum in Thessaloniki that is devoted to the traditional culture of recent times in the region northern Greece. The museum records the evidence of the past, by which the pre-modern man faced the basic life needs and organized his socia

The Epigraphic Museum of Athens is the third largest museum of ancient inscriptions in the world. The collection of the collection Epigraphical Museum includes 13,500 inscriptions, mainly in Latin, from the beginning of the historical period to the late Roman period. It is located in the south wing

The Thessaloniki Olympic Museum is a Sport Museum in Thessaloniki devoted to the athletic history of Greece. The museum consists of four exhibition halls with the permanent exhibition dedicated to Olympic Games 'Prominence of Sport History and Olympic Ideal', the permanent exhibition 'Science of Spo

The Athens City Museum was founded in 1973 and is housed in the first royal palace of Greece, consisting of two mansions. The museum is dedicated to the history of the city and holds and exhibits objects collected by art collector Lambros Eutaxias (1905-1996), artifacts illustrating the rise and fal

As for the technological evolution sector, our museum contains the most complete collection in the world where you can see the story and the development of the technology colossus- Apple. The collection is consisted of 1,650 exhibits. The collection includes not only the first Apple Computers, iPhon

The Cultural Centre Hellenic Cosmos is a hi-tech cultural centre in Athens that introduces visitors to the Hellenic culture with the use of virtual reality tours and performances. The Cultural Centre aims to unravel the complex issues of Hellenism.

The B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation is a foundation and a museum in Athens for fine arts and music.

The Permanent Exhibition Man and Tools - Greek Folk Art Museum is a branch of the Greek Folk Art Museum that holds objects introducing the tools craftsmen used in the past.

Museum of the History of the Greek Costume of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women is a special interest museum in Athens. The museum holds and displays a collection that includes Greek traditional costumes, porcelain dolls with Greek costumes, reproductions of minoan, classic and Byzantine clothes and je

The Spathario Museum of Shadow Theatre (Spathario Shadow Theatre Museum) is a museum in Maroussi in Athens that is named after prominent Greek puppet shadow artist Evgenios Spatharis, who was the most prominent shadow theatre artist in Greece. The Spathario Museum of Shadow Theatre mostly mostly exh

The Museum of Engravings and Graphic Arts is a museum in Athens that holds a collection of around 3000 works of Greek engravers and 300 books and other objects related to the field of Graphic Arts. The Museum of Engravings and Graphic Arts is housed in a neoclassical building and aims to cover the e