The best museums in Thessaloniki in September 2025

These are the top 10 best museums in Thessaloniki, Greece, ranked by their rating and popularity in 2025. Click a museum for more information about the museum, including visitor information, exhibitions and reviews.

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    Museum of Illusions Thessaloniki

     Thessaloniki
  2. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki2

    Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

     Thessaloniki
    The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki is a history museum in Thessaloniki that is housed in a building that is example of the modern architectural trends of Greece, designed by architect Patroklos Karantinos. The museum holds objects from the Prehistoric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roma
  3. Museum of Byzantine Culture3

    Museum of Byzantine Culture

     Thessaloniki
    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.
  4. War Museum of Thessaloniki4

    War Museum of Thessaloniki

     Thessaloniki
    The War Museum of Thessaloniki is a military museum in Thessaloniki that is housed in the building designed by architect Vitaliano Poselli, built between 1900 and 1902. The War Museum of Thessaloniki illustrates the Hellenic race throughout history and contributes to the documentation of the history
  5. Noesis - Science Center and Technology Museum5

    Noesis - Science Center and Technology Museum

     Thessaloniki
  6. Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki6

    Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki

     Thessaloniki
    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
  7. Museum of the Macedonian Struggle7

    Museum of the Macedonian Struggle

     Thessaloniki
    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
  8. Thessaloniki Cinema Museum8

    Thessaloniki Cinema Museum

     Thessaloniki
    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
  9. Museum of Photography Thessaloniki9

    Museum of Photography Thessaloniki

     Thessaloniki
    The Museum of Photography Thessaloniki is the only museum dedicated to the art of photography in Greece and is housed in Warehouse A on the First Pier of the Port of Thessaloniki. The collections that the Museum of Photography Thessaloniki holds consist of more than 100,000 photographic objects, cov
  10. Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia - Thrace10

    Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia - Thrace

     Thessaloniki
    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

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