It all began in the 1960s, when Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris began to collect ancient artefacts and Cycladic figurines. As time went on, the collection increased in size and travelled to important museums all over the world.
The Museum of Greek Children’s Art is a pioneering Museum, one of the very few worldwide that exhibits exclusively drawings and three dimensional artworks created by children 5 to 14 years old.
The Acropolis Museum was founded to exhibit all the significant finds from the Sacred Rock and its foothills.
The fully renovated National Archeological Museum is one of the biggest and most remarkable archeological museums in the world.
It is the biggest Gallery of Greece. The core collection includes 117 paintings registered in 1878.
It ranks among the five greatest museums of its kind in the world.
It exhibits weapons from Stone Age and Classic Period up to the Second World War.
In this remarkable Museum you will have the opportunity to learn many things concerning the interdependence of all leaving creatures.
It was established by the patrician Ant. Benakis (1873-1954) and inaugurated in 1931. It includes more than 45.000 exhibits from Ant. Benakis’ personal collection and from other donators who followed his example.
This Museum can be righteously proud of hosting one of the richest collections of Byzantine icons in the world.