The museum’s collections include sculptures, mosaics, murals, icons, coins, inscriptions, ceramics, manuscripts, handicrafts and glassware. This material comes from excavations in Thessaloniki and other areas of Macedonia, from markets, donations and traditions of antiquities, as well as from the return of the antiquities of Macedonia, which were transferred in 1916, after the liberation of Thessaloniki, to the Byzantine and Christian Museum Athens, where they were kept until the 1990s.The museum has also donated two large private collections, of Dori Papastratou, which consists of Orthodox religious engravings, and of Dimitrios Economopoulos, which includes mainly icons but also ceramics, coins and small works of art. Today, the museum’s collections continue to be enriched with purchases of objects, made by the Ministry of Culture or by donations from individuals and institutions. The museum is housed in one of the most important buildings of modern public architecture in Greece, work of the architect Kyriakos Krokos, while it also includes the monument-logo of Thessaloniki, the White Tower.Its permanent exhibition is developed in eleven rooms, which correspond to an equal number of independent exhibition sections. They all cover different aspects and periods of Byzantine culture and are organized according to modern museological conceptions, so that each object is not treated as an independent work of art, but integrated into a set of objects to illustrate aspects of the society that created it.The first 3 rooms are dedicated to the early Christian era (4th-7th century). The next 3 in the mid-Byzantine (8th-12th), the seventh in the late Byzantine (13th-1453), the 8th and 9th in the collections of Papastratos and Economopoulos respectively, the 10th in the post-Byzantine era (1453-19th century) and the 11th in the process from the discovery of the ancient object to its exhibition in the museum.

The museum has specialized and fully equipped workshops for the preservation of wooden images, ceramics, glass, bone, metal, paper, mural, mosaic, stone and marble. Its warehouses are spacious and functional, shaped according to modern international standards, while there is a special reception area for excavation findings.The storage and laboratory spaces are housed in the basement and on the first level of the building and occupy an area of ​​about 5,000 square meters, almost twice that of the exhibition. The museum also has an amphitheater, space for periodical exhibitions and other activities and a shop.

Administrative Information:

Official Unit:
Museum of Byzantine Culture
2 Stratou Avenue, Τ.Κ. 54013, Thessaloniki (Prefecture of Thessaloniki)
Telephone: +30 2313 306400
Fax: +30 2313 306402
Email: mbp@culture.gr

Tickets:
Full: €8, Reduced: €4

Open:
Monday – Sunday 09.00-16.00

Amenities for the physically challenged:
The Museum is accessible for people with dissabilities.
Moreover, For the blind people and people with limited vision we have a leaflet in Braille script (Greek-English), a special shaped outdoor exhibition with marmor artifacts and a program of audio-haptic guided tour through the Museum’s permanent exhibition titled “Touch and be acquainted with Byzantium” in three languages (English, German, Russian) and in Greek. Moreover we provide a special brochure for the escort. All these are free of charge by the use of entrance ticket.

Access:
With a city bus
From the east towards the centre of the city
Lines 7, 10, 11, 12, 31, 58
Bus stop “Stratigio” – Museum of Byzantine Culture
Line 8
Bus stop Museum of Byzantine Culture
Lines 3, 5, 6, 33, 39, 78
Bus stop City Hall

From the centre of the city towards the Museum
Lines 3, 10, 11, 12, 31, 39
Bus stop “Stratigio” – Museum of Byzantine Culture
Line 3
Bus stop Museum of Byzantine Culture

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His exhibition sections also include votive and resolution reliefs, pottery such as vases, figurines and reliefs as well as other small items such as bronze votive figurines and utensils. Some of the sculptures of bronze objects and pottery were transferred from the National Archaeological Museum where they were kept. The inscribed works (votive bases, honorary resolutions, lists of the votive offerings of the goddess Athena, building inscriptions of the Erechtheion) were transferred from the Epigraphic Museum and the coins (“treasures”) from the Numismatic Museum of Athens.Important is the gap in the Acropolis Museum of the original sculptures of the Parthenon, which are in European Museums and University collections (British Museum, Louvre, etc.). The Acropolis Museum and its activities are inextricably linked to the archeological site and the restoration works carried out on the monuments of the rock and the slopes of the Acropolis.

Administrative Information

Official Unit:
Acropolis Museum
15 Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, Τ.Κ. 11742, Athens (Prefecture of Attiki)
Telephone: 210 9000900
Email: info@theacropolismuseum.gr

Tickets:
Full: €5, Reduced: €3

Amenities for the physically challenged:
All public areas of the Museum are wheelchair accessible. Wheelchairs are available free of charge at the Museum entrance.

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The museum is housed in an imposing neoclassical building of the end of the nineteenth century, which was designed by L. Lange and remodelled by Ernst Ziller. The vast exhibition space – numerous galleries on each floor accounting for a total of 8,000 square metres – house five large permanent collections: The Prehistoric Collection, which includes works of the great civilizations that developped in the Aegean from the sixth millennium BC to 1050 BC (Neolithic, Cycladic, Mycenaean), and finds from the prehistoric settlement at Thera. The Sculptures Collection, which shows the development of ancient Greek sculpture from the seventh to the fifth centuries BC with unique masterpieces. The Vase and Minor Objects Collection, which contains representative works of ancient Greek pottery from the eleventh century BC to the Roman period and includes the Stathatos Collection, a corpus of minor objects of all periods. The Metallurgy Collection, with many fundamental statues, figurines and minor objects. And, finally, the only Egyptian and Near Eastern Antiquities Collection in Greece, with works dating from the pre-dynastic period (5000 BC) to the Roman conquest.

The museum possesses a rich photographic archive and a library with many rare publications, the latter of which is constantly enriched to meet the needs of the research staff. There are also modern conservation laboratories for metal, pottery, stone and organic materials, a cast workshop, a photographic laboratory and a chemistry laboratory. The museum has temporary exhibition spaces, a lecture hall for archaeological lectures and one of the largest shops of the Archaeological Receipts Fund.

The National Archaeological Museum welcomes thousands of visitors each year. Besides displaying its own treasures, it organizes temporary exhibitions and lends artefacts to exhibitions both in Greece and abroad. It also functions as a research center for scientists and scholars from around the world and participates in special educational and other programs. An important feature is the availability of guided visits for people with hearing impediments. The Museum functions as a Special Regional Service of the Ministry of Culture and its five permanent collections are administered autonomously.

Administrative Information

Official Unit:
National Archaeological Museum
44 Patission St., Τ.Κ. 10682, Athens (Prefecture of Attiki)
Telephone: +30 213 214 4800, +30 213 214 4891
Fax: +30 210 8213573, 8230800
Email: eam@culture.gr

Tickets:
Full: €12, Reduced: €6

Amenities for the physically challenged:
Ramps, Lifts, WC

Access:
Metro – Omonia or Victoria Station
Βuses No. Β5, Α7, Α8, Β8, Β12, Γ12, 022, 035, 046, 060, 224, 605, 608, 622
Trolley: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 13, 15, 18, 19

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The museum, located in the town centre, was built between 1937 and 1940 by architect Patroklos Karantinos on a site previously occupied by the Roman Catholic monastery of Saint-Francis which was destroyed by earthquake in 1856. The museum’s antiseismic building is an important example of modernist architecture and was awarded a Bauhaus commendation. The colours and construction materials, such as the veined polychrome marbles, recall certain Minoan wall-paintings which imitate marble revetment. The two-storeyed building has 27 galleries, a gallery for audio-visual displays, extensive modern laboratories, a cloakroom, a cafeteria and a museum shop that sells museum copies, books, postcards and slides.

The Herakleion Archaeological Museum is a Special Regional Service of the Ministry of Culture and its purpose is to acquire, safeguard, conserve, record, study, publish, display and promote Cretan artefacts from the Prehistoric to the Late Roman periods. The museum organizes temporary exhibitions in Greece and abroad, collaborates with scientific and scholarly institutions, and houses a variety of cultural events.

Administrative Information:
Official Unit:
Archaeological Museum of Herakleion
Xanthoudidou 2 Str., Τ.Κ. 71202, Herakleion (Prefecture of Iraklio)
Telephone: 2810 279000, 2810 279002, 2810 279087
Fax: 2810 279001
Email: amh@culture.gr

Tickets:
Full: €12, Reduced: €6
Tickets can be bought either at the museum’s ticket booth with a credit or debit card, or online through the only official website: https://etickets.tap.gr/ Tickets can only be used on the scheduled day and time slot.

Access:
Xanthoudidou 2 Str.

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Archaeological Museum of Herakleion

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Following a long period of extensive renovation and reorganization of both the exhibits and the storage and the administrative sections, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki reopened its gates to the public in September 2006. During the restoration phase, in conjunction with the extension of the Museum?s premises, the permanent collections were also redesigned and exhibited in a way that would serve the needs of modern visitors.

The Museum’s exhibition proposal comprises of eight units, through which the visitors come in contact with the world of ancient Macedonia, its culture and its people:1. Prehistoric Macedonia, 2. Towards the Birth of Cities, 3. Macedonia form the 7th c. BC until the late antiquity, 4. Thessaloniki, Metropolis of Macedonia, 5. The Gold of Macedon, 6. Field, House, Garden, Grave, 7. Memory in stone, 8. Macedonia: from fragments to pixels

Administrative Information:

Official Unit:
Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
6 M. Andronikou Str., Τ.Κ. 54621, Thessaloniki (Prefecture of Thessaloniki)
Telephone: +30 2313 310201
Fax: +30 2310 861306
Email: amth@culture.gr

Tickets:
Full: €8, Reduced: €4
From November 1st to March 31st the ticket price for the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki is 4 euros for all visitors.

Amenities for the physically challenged:
Entrance for visitors with special needs.

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Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

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