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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.
Athens City Museum (Vouros-Eutaxias Foundation) is an art museum and former royal residence in Athens, Greece. It houses a collection of Athens-related items collected by art collector Lambros Eutaxias [Wikidata] (1905-1996). [1] The collection includes antiquities, Byzantine art, sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs and metal, glass ...
The Municipal Gallery of Athens is a museum in Athens, Greece.It houses a rich collection of nearly 3,000 works from leading 19th- and 20th-century Greek artists. Formerly located on Peiraios Street on Eleftherias (Koumoundourou) Square, in October 2010 the gallery moved three blocks northwest to the corner of Myllerou and Leonidou streets on Avdi Square in Metaxourgeio.
In 1896, Alexandros Soutzos, a jurist and art lover, bequeathed his collection and estate to the Greek Government aspiring to the creation of an art museum. The museum opened in 1900 and the first curator was Georgios Jakobides, a famous Greek painter who was a member of the Munich School artistic movement. After World War II the works began ...
Municipal Gallery of Athens; Museum of Children's Art in Plaka; National Art Gallery National Glyptotheque; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Paxinou-Minotis Museum; Pieridis Museum of Ancient Cypriot Greek Art & Contemporary Art; The N. Chatzikiriakos-Gkikas Art Gallery; Technopolis (Gazi) Theatrical Museum of Greece; Maria Calas Museum
The museum is located near the center of Athens as well as its primary archaeological sites, including the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum. As of 2020, the building is being restored to create state-of-the-art facilities for the permanent collection, periodic exhibitions, educational programs, and workshops. 3SK Stylianidis Architects won an ...
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancelled Tuesday's meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis after his office said the two sides had previously agreed that it should not be used as a ...
The Acropolis Museum (Greek: Μουσείο Ακρόπολης, Mouseio Akropolis) is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on the surrounding slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece .