Museums in Athens

The Acropolis Museum is a world-class museum built directly over an archaeological excavation, displaying the original sculptures, friezes, and artifacts from the Acropolis. Its top-floor Parthenon Gallery is aligned precisely with the temple above.

The National Archaeological Museum is the largest museum in Greece and one of the most important archaeological museums in the world, with collections spanning from the Neolithic era through late antiquity.

The Benaki Museum is Greece's finest private museum, tracing Greek culture from prehistory through the modern era in an elegant neoclassical mansion near the National Garden. Its collection spans 6,000 years.

The Byzantine and Christian Museum holds one of the world's most significant collections of Byzantine art, with over 25,000 objects from the 3rd to 20th centuries housed in a Florentine-style villa with peaceful gardens.

The Numismatic Museum houses one of the world's greatest coin collections — 600,000 objects spanning from antiquity to the modern era — in the Iliou Melathron, the spectacular mansion of Troy excavator Heinrich Schliemann.

The Museum of Cycladic Art is devoted to the ancient cultures of the Aegean, famous for its collection of elegant Cycladic marble figurines — the minimalist sculptures that inspired Picasso and Modigliani.

The Museum of Greek Folk Art showcases traditional Greek crafts, costumes, embroidery, and shadow-theatre puppets across several renovated buildings in Plaka, including a former Ottoman mosque.