Tag: Museums of Modern History

Faithful copies of an era of Athens that no longer exists, but will never be forgotten. To anyone who circulates in Athens, this corner building is well known. It is impossible not to have seen it. On the Petralona-Thissio border, the Old Pilnery of Poulopoulos houses the Melina Merkouri Cultural Center. There, the visitor can tour the two permanent exhibitions in the centre. The time capsule has opened and the journey to an Athenian neighbourhood has begun. The capital of Greece as it was at that time. It's like you're ...

Exhibits show the influence of movements on Greek artists A small historical treasure in Athens. The destination is the Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art, in Avdi Square. In Metaxourgio district. From 1855 to 1875 the building at the intersection of Leonidou and Mylleros streets functioned as a silk factory. That's how the area got its name. In the two halls of the beautiful neoclassical building, the visitor will find the permanent and the periodic exhibitions. The exhibition features exhibits from the late 10th century onwards. The movements of Academicism, Impressionism, ...

The object of the museum is the city of Athens after it became the capital of the Greek state The Museum of the City of Athens could only be housed in the heart of the capital. In Kalfthomonos Square. You can go by car, but what's the point when you can move there by public transport? There is a stop a few meters from the entrance of the museum and the gas-fuelled bus will save you from great discomfort. The object of the museum is the city of Athens since ...

A living and constantly evolving organism with more than 3,000 exhibits We walk in Ceramics, in Thission district,on Melidoni Street. At number four, we see... that there's light and we enter. The Center for the Study of Modern Ceramics is still a small historical treasure. It's the rest of Athens. With pleasant surprises that several of its doors hide. The museum is housed in a neoclassical building of 1875. Undoubtedly, a representative sample of the neoclassicism of the time. Before it turned into an exhibition, it was a private residence. ...

It is not a museum for the mass, but it has too much to teach to its visitor One minute from the metro stop of the Music Hall is the "Eleftherios Venizelos" Museum. In Eleftheria Park, in a green space, the great Greek politician has his own place. A two-storey neoclassical building. Historical events that occurred from the birth to the death of Eleftherios Venizelos tell us part of his life. It's a performance for a part. The central hero is Venizelos himself and through the exhibits of the museum, ...

As if you were on deck, then you want to go down to the hold, and want to find out more. Outside the Maritime Museum of Piraeus, the Papanikoli submarine seems to always be on alert. Part of the historic submarine stands prominently in the courtyard of the museum. The maritime history of Greece begins to unfold before you pass the entrance. The first two halls in the museumare dedicated to prehistoric times and classical antiquity. The visitor learns about the existence of shipping in the Aegean Archipelago as early ...

Time travel with exhibits from the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 up to the Second World War In Kolokotroni Square, in the spaces around the old parliament, the National Historical Museum is housed in the Old Parliament. Exhibits from the Fall of Constantinople to the Second World War, next to the watchful eye of Theodoros Kolokotronis. Paintings, banners, traditional costumes, weapons are some of the exhibits that will accompany the visitor on his journey through time. At the entrance of the museum, there is an interactive painting that unfolds the ...

6,000 unique exhibits lead the passenger to space and time At the Electric Railway terminal in Piraeus, there is the starting point for the history of the railway. The Electric Railway Museum. This museum is interwoven with the history of the whole of Greece. That's what Pavlos Koulovassilopoulos, who is in charge of the site, believes. And he started arguing... He told us about the first routes, from Piraeus to Thission. For the creation of the Omonia station. Indeed, who knows or remembers where the stop was originally? He compared ...