Sculptural Installation, by Dimitris Alithinos, 1973, via the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. The Museum’s constantly growing collection is formed around a particularly important nucleus of works by Greek and international artists, and in its permanent exhibition, many art forms are exhibited. The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) is housed in a renovated old brewery building, the old FIX brewery, an Athens landmark on its own merit near the centre of Athens and is spread over 18.142 square m.
If contemporary art is included in your interests, then plan to visit the "youngest" museum in Athens that opened fully operational to the public this year, in February 2020. The National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Athens You will need to spend at least 2 hours to briefly take in the displays, and if you have the luxury, spend more time to really ponder over the evolution of art, the spirit of the artists and the beauty that is abundantly diffused within the halls of this great museum.
About 460 BC, via National Archaeological Museum of Athens. From the sea area near Cape Artemision, Northern Euboea. Within an imposing neoclassical building that covers an area of 8,000 square m., it includes five major permanent collections: 1) Prehistoric Antiquities-displaying works of the great Aegean civilizations from the 6th millennium to 1050 BCE (Neolithic, Cycladic, and Mycenaean periods) and finds from the prehistoric settlement of Thira 2) Sculpture works, presenting the evolution of ancient Greek sculpture from the 7th century BCE until the 5th century CE through unique works of art 3) The Vase and Miniature Collection, which includes representative works of ancient Greek ceramics from the 11th century BCE up to the Roman era 4) Metalworking with many unique original works, statues, figurines and miniature crafts and 5) Egyptian and Eastern Antiquities with works of art dating from the pre-emptive period (5000 BCE) to the times of the Roman conquest.īronze statue of Poseidon or Zeus. A short trailer produced by will introduce you to the scene. Walking the districts of the most popular areas, Metaxourgeio, Gazi, Exarchia and some streets of Psyrri where you will come across graffiti murals that indeed justify the open museum concept. For street art lovers, Athens is the "new Berlin." What is amazing is the abundance of art available to see, because it is everywhere you look. When in Athens, a good starting point for any visitor is to walk the streets around the city centre area, the same streets that for over 3,000 years have guided the steps of humankind through the notions of philosophy, politics, and democracy-all Greek words, by the way.įeel the urban vibes of modern Athens through the eyes of the many street artists who have created an "open museum" of art. If you cannot see it all, see all that is worth it!Īthens should be your starting point: it is the capital, has many great things to see and it encapsulates the Greek Spirit of both the ancient and the modern urban life of Greece.
Plan wisely, study your trip and be selective.
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