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, [...]

Introductory Note
from the Director
professor Angelos Delivorrias:

The increased numbers of its objects, staff, visitors and activities in the past two decades obliged the Benaki Museum to redefine its character based on modern demands and to ensure the conditions required to make its operation more comfortable in the future. Thus it was deemed necessary to decongest both [...]

 
 The Museum
 

The National Archaeological Museum is the largest museum in Greece and one of the world’s great museums. Although its original purpose was to secure all the finds from the nineteenth century excavations in and around Athens, it gradually became the central National Archaeological Museum and was enriched with finds from all over Greece. Its [...]

  Goulandris Museum of Natural History is a public welfare institution, devoted to study, conservation and protection of natural environment.
Ever since its foundation it has mapped a pioneer route, a new rapprochement between man and natural environment. It has developed efficient scientific activities for the confrontation and inhibition of environmental threats against the planet and [...]

There’s a museum in Athens where you might not have been and not even know. It’s the Greek Folk Art Museum, which is situated in Plaka.The main building is at 17, Kydathineon str. Plaka and there are three annexes in the Tzami, the Baths of Athens, and the building of 22, Panos str. in Plaka. [...]