Top 50 best museums in Greece

The Acropolis Museum is a museum in Athens that is devoted to findings from the Acropolis archaeological site. The museum exhibits almost 4,000 objects. There are mainly sculptures that used to decorate the historical sites located on the Acropolis, but also instruments that the inhabitants of Acrop

The National Archaeological Museum in Athens is the largest archaeological museum in Greece. With more than 11,000 exhibits, the museum has one of the greatest collections of ancient Greek sculptures and pottery in the world. Inside, you can see artefacts that are 9,000 years old, as well as artwork

The Roman Agora, an ancient public square in Athens, is a significant historical site that offers a glimpse into the city's past under Roman rule. It is conveniently located a bit east of the original Agora and north of the Acropolis, in the current Plaka neighborhood, near Monastiraki square. This location makes it easily accessible for tourists exploring the city.

The district of Kerameikos was divided into two by the Wall of Themistocles. The area outside the walls became the largest necropolis of the city. This historical division and the presence of the necropolis provide a unique insight into the ancient city's layout and burial practices, making it a point of interest for visitors.

Founded by a Greek Collector Antonis Benakis, the Benaki Museum displays collections of historic and artistic artefacts. The collection includes pieces from all around the world - Byzantine art, Chinese porcelain and Greek paintings. There are also religious items, musical instruments, books, weapo

The Museum of Cycladic Art is a museum in Athens that houses the Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris collection. This couple started to purchase Ancient Greek antiques in the 60s, with a focus to objects of Cycladic art. In 1981, Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris decided that their collection should be perman

The Museum of the Ancient Agora (The Agora Museum) is a museum that is located in the rebuilt Stoa of Attalos on the Agora of Athens. The Museum of the Ancient Agora was opened in 1956 and the most important finds from the Agora are displayed on two floors. The ground floor mainly features statues,

The Byzantine and Christian Museum is a museum in Athens that is located in the former Villa Ilissia that displays Christian art dating back to the third century. There are about 25,000 items, including sculptures, paintings, mosaics, frescoes and icons.

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

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.

The War Museum of Athens (Athens War Museum) is a museum in the capital of Greece that is devoted to the Greek Armed Forces and that covers the history of war in all ages. This museum houses the historic arms collection of the Greek Ministry of Defense, including the collection of the Greek Army wit

The Hellenic Motor Museum is a private car museum in Athens in Greece that is located on the upper floors of the Athenian Capitol shopping center. The exhibitions in the Hellenic Motor Museum alternately show 110 exhibits of the around 300 vehicles in its collection.

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

The Benaki Museum of Islamic Art houses the Islamic art collections of the Benaki Museum. The museum is located in a complex of neo-classical buildings in Athens, comprising a three-storey house and a two-storey house. The collection held and displayed by the museum includes examples of all local va

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

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

The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum is a jewelry museum in the Greek capital Athens. The museum was founded by the famous Greek jewelry designer Ilias Lalounis. The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum holds 24 collections of more than 4000 jewels and small ornaments, dedicated to the history and art of je

The National Observatory of Athens - Thiseio is a research institute in Athens that was founded in 1842 and began observations in 1847. It is the oldest research foundation in Greece and one of the oldest research institutes in Southern Europe. This is the central premise of the National Observatory

The Frissiras Museum is a museum in Athens that exhibits Greek and other European paintings collected by Vlassis Frissiras.

The Athens City Museum was founded in 1973 and is housed in the first royal palace of Greece, consisting of two mansions. The museum is dedicated to the history of the city and holds and exhibits objects collected by art collector Lambros Eutaxias (1905-1996), artifacts illustrating the rise and fal

The National Historical Museum is a historical museum in Athens that is housed in the former seat of Parliament. The museum displays a collection of items dating back to the capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453. Main focus in the National Historical Museum in Athens is on the period of

The Numismatic Museum of Athens is a museum that is housed in the mansion of the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. The museum houses one of the greatest collections of coins in the world, both ancient and modern, containing 600,000 objects, mainly coins but also medals, standard masses, dies and st

The Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens documents as one of three museums (next to the Jewish Museum Thessaloniki and the small Jewish Museum Rhodes) the history of Judaism in Greece. Although Jews have been living in Greece since antiquity, the exhibits are mainly from the modern era. Parts of the sy

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

The Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments (The Museum of Popular Music Instruments) is a museum and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in Athens. The museum is housed in the Lassanis Mansion where it exhibits around 600 Greek musical instruments dating from the last 300 years.

The Athens University Museum is a museum in Plaka in Athens that is housed in the Kleanthis - Saubert House, one of the most historic buildings in Athens. It once was a structure of the Ottoman period, but it got completely renovated between 1831 and 1833. The Athens University Museum functions as a

The Hellenic Children's Museum conducts educational programs for children, all in a fun and creative way. Children are free to explore, experiment and play in the museum.

The Herakleidon Museum is an interactive center for popularized science in Athens with a permanent interactive exhibition "I Play and Understand" inviting children and adults to come into contact with science, art, and mathematics, through creative play and interactive exhibits.

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

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

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

The B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation is a foundation and a museum in Athens for fine arts and music.

The Epigraphic Museum of Athens is the third largest museum of ancient inscriptions in the world. The collection of the collection Epigraphical Museum includes 13,500 inscriptions, mainly in Latin, from the beginning of the historical period to the late Roman period. It is located in the south wing

The Thessaloniki Olympic Museum is a Sport Museum in Thessaloniki devoted to the athletic history of Greece. The museum consists of four exhibition halls with the permanent exhibition dedicated to Olympic Games 'Prominence of Sport History and Olympic Ideal', the permanent exhibition 'Science of Spo

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

The Museum of Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulos is a small museum of antiquitie named after the collectors of the exhibited Greek artefacts. The museum is housed in the neoclassical mansion of the Michalea family built in 1864. The collection contains the private collection of Paul and Alexandra Ka

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

Museum of the History of the Greek Costume of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women is a special interest museum in Athens. The museum holds and displays a collection that includes Greek traditional costumes, porcelain dolls with Greek costumes, reproductions of minoan, classic and Byzantine clothes and je

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