Acropolis Museum

The new Acropolis museum is under the south slope of the Acropolis and contains mostly pediment sculpture, reliefs, and statues found on the sacred rock of Acropolis, which formed most of its decoration. Among these statues, the well-known female figures with the characteristic archaic smile called ‘Korai’ such as the Kore of Naxos, the Kore of Chios, and the Kore of Lyons etc. There are also sphinxes, consecrated reliefs such as that of Athena in Medication and consecrated sculptures such as the Moschoforos (a man who is carrying a calf across his shoulders), the Boy of Kritias etc.

National Archaeological Museum

The National Archaeological museum houses the historical past of the Greek civilisation. It is considered as the most important museum in the whole world.
You can see findings and monuments from all the places of ancient Greece and Greek Civilisations. There are statues, vases, weapons, jewellery from Neolithic times, the Cycladic civilisation, the Minoan civilisation, the Classical and Hellenistic periods and the Roman period. Among the most important are the Golden mask of Agamemnon, the statue of Zeus from Donona, the statue of Poseidon of Artemision, the Marathon boy, the statues of Asclepius-Demeter and Persephone, the statue of Aphrodite etc.

Byzantine Museum

The Byzantine museum of Athens is one of the most important public institutions in Greece, established in 1914 in order to collect, preserve and exhibit the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine cultural heritage in the Hellenic territory. The collection contains more than 30000 artefacts such as icons, sculptures, ceramics, paintings, jewellery, wall paintings, and mosaics.

Numismatic Museum

The Numismatic museum is one of the five most important museums in the world and houses more than 600000 coins, metals and precious stones from the ancient Greek, Byzantine and Roman period.

War Museum

The war museum of Athens houses exhibits of the Greek Army from the prehistoric times to today.

Jewish Museum

The Jewish museum was founded in order to collect and exhibit the material evidence of 2300 years of Jewish life in Greece. The collection contains more than ten thousand artefacts related to the domestic and religious life of the Greek Jews.

The estimated time to visit each museum is about an hour.
The duration of the tour depends on the number of museums that we choose to visit.

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