All contemporary art museums to visit in Greece

Experience the cutting-edge world of contemporary art at 8 museums in Greece. These museums showcase works by modern artists, exploring current themes and innovative techniques.

Are you a fan of contemporary art? These are the best contemporary art museums in Greece:

  1. Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art1

    Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

     Thessaloniki
    The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum in Thessaloniki with a collection of over 2,000 works by Greek and international artists. The core of the collection is the donation by Alexandros Iolas of 30 works by international artists. The museum is housed in a specially mo
  2. State Museum of Contemporary Art2

    State Museum of Contemporary Art

     Thessaloniki
    The Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art (MOMus–Museum of Modern Art–Costakis Collection) is an art museum with an initial collection that was formed by a large part of the well known Costakis Collection with around 1,275 Russian avant-garde paintings, sculptures, drawings and constructions
  3. Marika Kotopouli Museum3

    Marika Kotopouli Museum

     Athens
    The Marika Kotopouli Museum is a modern art museum in Zografou in Athens that is housed in a building that was built by Greek theater actress Marika Kotopouli as her holiday home in 1926. In 1990, it opened to the public as a museum of modern art hosting art exhibitions as well as the permanent coll
  4. Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery - Benaki Museum4

    Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery - Benaki Museum

     Athens
    Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas also known as Niko Ghika or just Ghika (1906 - 1994) was a leading Greek painter, sculptor, author and academician who mainly painted in Cubist style, among other styles. The Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery - Benaki Museum is housed in his house in which a large collecti
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    Benaki Museum Benaki - Pireos St. Annexe

     Athens
    Benaki Museum Benaki - Pireos St. Annexe is a location of the Benaki Museum with temporary exhibitions.
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    Teloglion Foundation of Art A.U.Th.

     Thessaloniki
    Teloglion Foundation of Art A.U.Th. is an art museum in Thessaloniki that is housed in a modern building with a panoramic view over the Thermaic Gulf and Olympus. The museum holds collections created by the husband and wife team Aliki and Nestor Telloglou that illustrates the story of modern Greek
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    Museum G. Gounaropoulos

     Athens
    Museum G. Gounaropoulos (The Gounaropoulos Museum) is a museum in Athens that was founded in 1979. The museum is devoted to Greek artist Giorgos Gounaropoulos, who began painting in academic style, then was influenced by impressionism and Paul Cézanne, and eventually developed a very personal surrea
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    National Museum of Contemporary Art

     Athens
    The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) is a contemporary art museum in Athens focused on collecting and exhibiting contemporary Greek and international art. The collection can be divided into two parts: a historic one, dating from the second half of the 20th century, and a contemporary one.