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The National museums
By visiting museums in Athens you will experience the history
of Greece. There are more than 240 state or state-controlled
museums in the country, exhibiting Greek art during four-thousand-years.
Neo-lithic, classical, Hellenistic, Byzantine and post-Byzantine,
as well as modern art can be found in the different museums.
The National Archaeological Museum
The National Archaeological Museum is the largest and most
famous museum of ancient Greek art. Surely, it is the best
museum of Greek artifacts. This museum contains artifacts
from prehistoric times until the Byzantine period.
Take a virtual tour one - click here,
or take the virtaul tour two - click here.
The Acropolis Museum
The Acropolis Museum contains the artifacts excavated on the
Athenian Acropolis over the last century. Founded in the middle
of the 19th century, the museum was renovated between 1949 and
1953 and consists of 9 exhibition rooms. After a tour in the
museum you will better understand the history and foundation
of Acropolis. You will find a large range of Greek sculptures
from excavations on the Acropolis mountain. Among the most famous
exhibits are the Moschoforos – an exceptional fine statue of
a bearded youth of the 6th century BC, the Archaic Kores - statues
of a young women offered to Athena and the Caryatids – statues
of beautiful priestesses.
Take a virtual tour - click here.
The Byzantine Museum
The
Byzantine museum, founded in 1914, is located on Vasilissis
Sofias Avenue, not far from Syntagma Square. The Museum can
be proud of having one of the richest collections of Byzantine
icons in the world. The large range of sculptures dates from
the 4th to the 19th century and some of them are unique and
important for a better understanding of Byzantine art and
culture.
Museum of the Ancient Agora of Athens
The Museum is housed in the Stoa of Attalos, a reconstructed
building of around 150 B.C. The characteristic feature of
the museum is that the exhibits are all closely connected
with the Athenian Democracy, as the Agora was the focus of
the city's public life. Her you can see a large range of sculptures,
coins, Clay lamps and many other objects in bronze, bone,
ivory, and glass.
Some of the most important items of the exhibition are the
Aryballos, Klepsydra, Bronze head of Nike and the statue of
a Nereid.
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