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National Historical Museum of Greece (Old Parliament House) Folklore, Folk art. Centre for the Study of Traditional Pottery; Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum; Museum of Greek Folk Art; Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments; Museum of the History of the Greek Costume; Art museums and galleries, Music, Theater, Culture, Popular Art. Athinais ...
This is a list of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. Naples Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy 130,000 objects [1] State Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia 106,000 objects [2] (Misleading collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast) British Museum, London, UK 100,000 ...
The Museum in 1893. The first national archaeological museum in Greece was established by the governor of Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias in Aigina in 1829. Subsequently, the archaeological collection was relocated to a number of exhibition places until 1858, when an international architectural competition was announced for the location and the architectural design of the new museum.
The National Gallery (Greek: Εθνική Πινακοθήκη, Ethniki Pinakothiki) is an art museum located on Vasilissis Sofias avenue in the Pangrati district, Athens, Greece. It is devoted to Greek and European art from the 14th century to the 20th century.
The Museum of Greek Folk Art is a museum in Athens, Greece.The museum was founded in 1918 as the Museum of Greek Handicrafts in the Tzistarakis Mosque in Monastiraki, which later became the National Museum of Decorative Arts and in 1959 it obtained its current name.
Athens, Greece: Center for Modern Greek Studies, National Research Foundation. ISBN 978-960-7916-94-5. Acheimastou Potamianou, Myrtalē (1998). Icons of the Byzantine Museum of Athens. Athens, Greece: Ministry of Culture. ISBN 9789602149119.
The Stag Hunt Mosaic at the Archaeological Museum of Pella (3rd BC). Artistic production in Greece began in the prehistoric pre-Greek Cycladic and the Minoan civilizations, both of which were influenced by local traditions and the art of ancient Egypt.
The museum was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris. [1] Starting in the early 1960s, the couple collected Greek antiquities, with special interest in the prehistoric art from the Cyclades islands of the Aegean Sea. [2] The museum's main building, erected ...