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The List of museums in Greece is a list of any museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

 in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 by prefecture
Prefecture
A prefecture is an administrative jurisdiction or subdivision in any of various countries and within some international church structures, and in antiquity a Roman district governed by an appointed prefect.-Antiquity:...

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Athens Prefecture
Athens Prefecture
The Athens Prefecture was one of the prefectures of Greece. It was part of the Attica region and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture. The capital of the prefecture was the city of Athens. After Lefkada Prefecture it was the second-smallest in Greece, but was the most populous and most densely...

Archaeological
  • Acropolis Museum
    Acropolis Museum
    The Old Acropolis Museum was an archaeological museum located in Athens, Greece on the archeological site of Acropolis. It is built in a niche at the eastern edge of the rock and most of it lies beneath the level of the hilltop, making it largely invisible. It was considered one of the major...

  • Archaeological Museum of Acharnes (under Folk Art Museum of Acharnes)
  • Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3443
  • Epigraphical Museum
    Epigraphical Museum
    The Epigraphical Museum of Athens, Greece, is the third-largest museum of ancient inscriptions in the world. Its collection comprises 13,500 inscriptions, mostly Latin, from early historical times to the Late Roman period. It is situated in the south wing of the National Archaeological Museum of...

  • Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art
    Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art
    The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art is one of the great museums of Athens. It houses a magnificent collection of artifacts of Cycladic art....

  • Museum of the Ancient Agora
    Stoa of Attalos
    The Stoa of Attalos is recognised as one of the most impressive stoæ in the Athenian Agora. It was built by and named after King Attalos II of Pergamon who ruled between 159 BC and 138 BC.-Description:...

  • Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies
    Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies
    The Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies is a museum in Athens, Greece, a part of the new Acropolis Museum and its research workshops. It is housed in the Wilhelm von Weiler Building, named after the Bavarian engineer who designed it in 1834 and constructed it in 1836...

  • National Archaeological Museum of Athens
    National Archaeological Museum of Athens
    The National Archaeological Museum in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity. It is considered one of the great museums in the world and contains the richest collection of artifacts from Greek...

  • Old Acropolis Museum
  • Syntagma Metro Station Archaeological Collection
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
Biographical, City, Diachronic, Ethnic, Ethnographic, History, Historic House
  • Eleftherios Venizelos Historical Museum
    Eleftherios Venizelos Historical Museum
    The Eleftherios Venizelos Museum is a museum in Eleutherias Park, Athens, Greece. It was founded in 1986 and houses a library, a collection of photographs and personal items of Eleftherios Venizelos.-External links:***...

  • Jewish Museum of Greece
    Jewish Museum of Greece
    The Jewish Museum of Greece is a museum in Athens, Greece. It was established by Nicholas Stavriyklakis in 1977 to preserve the material culture of the Greek Jews.-External links:* * * * *...

  • Museum of Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulou
  • Museum of the City of Athens
    Museum of the City of Athens
    Museum of the City of Athens Vouros - Eutaxias is a museum in Athens, Greece. It houses a collection of a variety of Athens-related items collected by art collector Lambros Eutaxias . It includes antiquities, byzantine art, sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs and metal, glass and textile...

  • National Historical Museum of Greece (Old Parliament House)
Folklore, Folk art
  • Centre for the Study of Traditional Pottery
  • Folk Art Museum of Acharnes
    Folk Art Museum of Acharnes
    The Folk Art Museum of Acharnes is a museum in Athens, Greece. It was founded in 1977 by the local Greek Mountaineering Society, which also formed the Historical and Folklore Association in 1981, to which it bequeathed the museum in 1982...

  • Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum
  • Museum of Greek Folk Art
    Museum of Greek Folk Art
    The Museum of Greek Folk Art is a museum in Athens, Greece. The museum was founded in 1918 as the Museum of Greek Handicrafts in the Tsisdarakis Mosque in Monastiraki, which later became the National Museum of Decorative Arts and in 1959 it obtained its current name. In 1973 the most of the...

  • Museum of Popular Music Instruments
    Museum of Popular Music Instruments
    The Museum of Popular Music Instruments is a museum and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in the Lassanis Mansion, Plaka, Athens, Greece. It displays about 600 Greek musical instruments from the last 300 years and has as many more in store.-Collection:...

  • Museum of the History of the Greek Costume
Art museums and galleries, Music, Theater, Culture, Popular Art
  • Athinais Culture Center
    Athinais Culture Center
    The Athinais Culture Center is a "multi-purpose" conference complex in Athens, Greece. It hosts a wide range of business initiatives, cultural activities and quality entertainment. An art gallery with a permanent exhibition of contemporary Greek art is among its features. The building was...

  • Bernier-Iliadis Gallery Museum
    Bernier-Iliadis Gallery Museum
    The Bernier-Iliadis Gallery Museum is an art museum in Athens, Greece, founded in 1977. In 1999, the museum moved from its original location in Kolonaki, Athens to a building in Thission, at the foot of the Acropolis. The Bernier-Illiadis Gallery Museum specializes in contemporary art.-External...

  • City of Athens Cultural Center
  • Design Museum of the 20th Century
    Design Museum of the 20th Century
    Design Museum of the 20th Century is a museum in Athens, Greece....

  • Deste Foundation
    Deste Foundation
    Deste Foundation or Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art is an arts foundation in Athens, Greece. Housing the massive collection of Greek businessman Dakis Joannou, it organizes exhibitions by emerging and established international contemporary artists...

     (exhibition area)
  • Frissiras Museum
    Frissiras Museum
    Frissiras Museum is a contemporary painting museum in Plaka Athens, Greece. It was founded and endowed by Vlassis Frissiras, an art-collecting lawyer. Its permanent collection consists of 3000 paintings and sculptures by Greek and other European artists on the subject of the human form.-External...

  • Gounaropoulos Museum
    Gounaropoulos Museum
    Gounaropoulos Museum is a museum located in Athens, Greece. It was founded in 1977 in Zografou.Giorgos Gounaropoulos , a Greek painter who was recognized for the special light in his paintings and his personal painting style....

  • Herakleidon Art Museum
    Herakleidon Art Museum
    Herakleidon: Experience in Visual Arts is a private art museum in Athens, Greece. Since its opening on July 13, 2004, the museum has held exhibitions featuring renowned artists, including M.C...

  • Museum of Engravings and Graphic Arts
  • Marika Kotopouli Museum
    Marika Kotopouli Museum
    The Marika Kotopouli Museum is a modern art museum in Zografou, Athens, Greece. The building housing the museum was built by the famous Greek theater actress Marika Kotopouli as her holiday home in 1926. During the Second World War the house was requisitioned by the Germans and after the war it...

  • Melina Merkouri Cultural Center
  • Municipal Gallery of Athens
    Municipal Gallery of Athens
    The Municipal Gallery of Athens is a museum in Athens, Greece. It houses a rich collection of nearly 3,000 works from leading 19th- and 20th-century Greek artists. Formerly located on Peiraios Street on Eleftherias Square, in October 2010 the gallery moved three blocks northwest to the corner of...

  • Museum of Children's Art in Plaka
    Museum of Children's Art in Plaka
    The Museum of Children's Art in Plaka is a museum in Athens, Greece.-External links:*...

  • National Glyptotheque
    National Glyptotheque
    National Glyptotheque is a sculpture museum located in Athens, Greece. It is an annex of the National Gallery of Greece. The museum was established in 2004 and became the first National Glyptotheque of Greece. It houses a permanent collection of Greek sculpture from the 19th and the 20th centuries...

  • National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
  • Paxinou-Minotis Museum
    Paxinou-Minotis Museum
    The Paxinou-Minotis Museum is a museum in Athens, Greece.-External links:**...

  • Pieridis Museum
    Pieridis Museum
    Pieridis Museum is a museum in Athens, Greece. Its collection includes items dating back almost nine thousand years, from the neolithic period to the Middle Ages. They are a part of the archaeological collection of the Pieridis Museum in Larnaca, Cyprus. It is situated in the Athinais Culture...

     of Ancient Cypriot Greek Art & Contemporary Art
  • Spathario Museum
    Spathario Museum
    The Spathario Shadow Theatre Museum is a museum in Maroussi, Athens, Greece. It exhibits mostly shadow puppet artifacts and it is named after prominent Greek puppet shadow artist Eugenios Spatharis. It was established in 1991 in the municipality of Maroussi and opened in 1996.-External links:****...

  • The N. Chatzikiriakos-Gkikas Art Gallery
    The N. Chatzikiriakos-Gkikas Art Gallery
    The Nikos Chatzikyriakos-Gikas Art Gallery is an art museum and gallery in Athens, Greece....

  • Technopolis (Gazi)
  • Theatrical Museum of Greece
    Theatrical Museum of Greece
    The Museum and Study Centre of the Greek Theatre is a museum in Athens, Greece. It was founded by the historian of the Greek Theatre, Yiannis Sideris in 1938.-External links:**...

  • Yiannis Tsarouchis Foundation Museum
  • Zoumboulaki Gallery
Industry, Maritime, Military, Mill, Railway, Science, Technology
  • Athens War Museum
  • Evgenidio Foundation
    Evgenidio Foundation
    The Evgenidio Foundation was established in 1956 in Athens, Greece implementing the will of the late Greek benefactor Εugenios Eugenidis, who died in April 1954. It has the form of private legal entity under law. The activity of the foundation, in accordance with its articles of association, is to...

     (Planetarium and Science museum)
  • Greek armored cruiser Georgios Averof
  • Museum of Telecommunications in Kifissia
    Museum of Telecommunications in Kifissia
    The Museum of Telecommunications in Kifissia is a museum in Athens, Greece.-External links:***...

  • Railway Museum of Athens
    Railway Museum of Athens
    The Railway Museum of Athens, Greece, was founded by the Hellenic Railways Organisation in 1978. It is currently located at 4 Siokou Street, next to the mainline from Athens to Inoi. The museum has a collection of items related to the history of rail transport in Greece, many of them exhibited in...

Anthropology, Natural History, Geology, Paleontology
  • Gaia Center
    Gaia Center
    Gaia Center is a museum in Athens, Greece. It is part of the Goulandris Natural History Museum, presenting the way planet Earth has been functioning for millions of years, from its geological evolution to the present, including the interventions of modern people. It includes a dome-monitor of 5...

  • Goulandris Natural History Museum
  • Museum of Anthropology, University of Athens
  • Museum of Geology and Paleontology of the Athens University
    Museum of Geology and Paleontology of the Athens University
    The Museum of Geology and Paleontology of the Athens University is a museum in Athens, Greece.-External links:**...

  • Zoological Museum of the University of Athens
    Zoological Museum of the University of Athens
    -External links:**...

Children, Education, Special Interests, Sports, University
  • Athens University Museum
    Athens University Museum
    The Athens University Museum is a museum in Plaka, Athens, Greece.The building was a structure of the Ottoman period but fundamentally restructured between 1831 and 1833 by Stamatios Kleanthis and Eduard Schaubert for their architectural office. From 1837 to 1841 it housed the newly founded...

  • Hellenic Children's Museum
    Hellenic Children's Museum
    The Hellenic Children's Museum in Athens, Greece is located in two houses specifically designed for use by children. The museum also features in the book, The Athens Assignment.-External links:* English version expected.**...

  • Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece
    Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece
    Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece is a philately museum in Athens, Greece, owned and operated by the Hellenic Post.-External links:*...

  • Tactual Museum of Athens
    Tactual Museum of Athens
    The Tactual Museum of Athens was founded in Athens in 1984 so that visually impaired people may become familiarised with the cultural heritage of Greece....


Piraeus Prefecture
Piraeus Prefecture
Piraeus Prefecture was one of the prefectures of Greece. It was part of the Attica region and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture. The capital of the prefecture was the city of Piraeus...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Piraeus
    Archaeological Museum of Piraeus
    The Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Attica, contains mainly sculptures, discovered in Piraeus and in the area of the Attic coast from Bronze Age to Roman times -Collections:The museum's displayed objects are divided in sections :...

  • Archaeological Museum of Aegina (Saronic island)
  • Archaeological Museum of Poros (Saronic island)
  • Archaeological Museum of Kythera (Ionian island) http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3518
Biographical, History
  • Pavlos Kountouriotis Mansion (Hydra, Saronic) (Greek)
  • Spetses Museum (Saronic island)
Art museums and galleries, Theater
  • Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus
    Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus
    The Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus is a museum in Piraeus, Greece. It was inaugurated in 1957 as part of the Municipal Library in the building of the Municipal Theatre. In 1985 it became an independent department...

  • Panos Aravantinos Decor Museum
    Panos Aravantinos Decor Museum
    Panos Aravantinos Decor Museum is a museum in Piraeus, Greece....

Maritime, Railway
  • Electric Railways Museum of Piraeus
    Electric Railways Museum of Piraeus
    The Electric Railways Museum of Piraeus is a railway museum in Piraeus, Greece. The museum was established in 2005 in the space of the former Post Office in Piraeus ISAP train station...

  • Hellenic Maritime Museum (Piraeus)

West Attica
West Attica
West Attica is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Attica. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Elefsina. The regional unit covers the western part of the agglomeration of Athens, and the area to its west....

Archaeological
Art museums and galleries

East Attica
East Attica
East Attica is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Attica. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Pallini. The regional unit covers the eastern part of the agglomeration of Athens, and also the rural area to its east....

Archaeological
Folklore, Folk art
  • Zygomalas Museum of Avlona
    Zygomalas Museum of Avlona
    -External links:** Brief description of history and activities of museum.** "Although a large part of these museums are financially supported by the Ministry, they are almost in their entirety owned and run by local authorities or private organisations -External links:** Brief description of...

  • Vorres Museum
    Vorres Museum
    The Vorres Museum is a diachronic museum of folk and contemporary art in Paiania of the East Attica Prefecture, in Greece. Its grounds cover including several buildings, gardens and courtyards. Its collection includes over 6000 pieces covering 4000 years of Greek history and art...

     (Peania)
Technology, Geology



Thessaloniki Prefecture
Thessaloniki Prefecture
Thessaloniki is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of Central Macedonia. Its capital is the city of Thessaloniki. It is the second most populous regional unit in Greece, behind Central Athens.-Geography:...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
  • Museum of Ancient Greek, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Instruments
  • Prehistoric Antiquities Museum of Thessaloniki
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
  • Crypt of Agios Demetrios http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3517
  • Museum of Ancient Greek, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Instruments (see Archaeological museums)
  • Museum of Byzantine Culture
    Museum of Byzantine culture
    The Museum of Byzantine Culture is a museum in Thessaloniki, Greece, which opened in 1994.-History:To design the museum, a nationwide architectural competition was announced in 1977. The competition was ultimately won by the entry of Kyriakos Krokos. Construction of the building began in March...

  • White Tower of Thessaloniki
    White Tower of Thessaloniki
    The White Tower of Thessaloniki , is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece and a symbol of Greek sovereignty over Macedonia...

Biographical, City, Diachronic, Ethnic, Ethnographic, History, Historic House
  • Atatürk Museum (Thessaloniki)
  • Folk Art and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace (see Folk Art)
  • Historical Museum of the Balkan Wars
    Historical Museum of the Balkan Wars
    Historical Museum of the Balkan Wars is a museum in Yefyra, of the Thessaloniki Prefecture, in Greece.-External links:***...

  • Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
    Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
    The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum in Thessaloniki, Greece showing the history of Sephardic Jews and Jewish life in Thessaloniki....

  • Museum of the Macedonian Struggle
    Museum of the Macedonian Struggle
    The Museum for the Macedonian Struggle occupies a neo-classical building designed by the renowned architect Ernst Ziller and built in 1893. In its six ground-floor rooms the museum graphically illustrates the modern and contemporary history of Greek Macedonia. It presents the social, economic,...

Folklore, Folk art
  • Folk Art and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace
Art museums and galleries, Music, Theater, Culture, Popular Art
  • Art Gallery of the Society of Macedonian Studies
    Art Gallery of the Society of Macedonian Studies
    Art Gallery of the Society of Macedonian Studies, founded in 1975, is a museum in Thessaloniki, Greece....

  • Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki
    Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki
    Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum in Thessaloniki, Greece.- External links :*...

  • Design Museum of Thessaloniki
    Design Museum of Thessaloniki
    Design Museum of Thessaloniki is a design museum in Thessaloniki, Greece. It collects items of industrial and graphic design. It was found in 1996 by Stergios Delialis and has at this time no permanent exhibition....

  • Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
    Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
    Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum in Thessaloniki, Greece.-History:The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki was founded in 1979 by a group of visionary citizens of Thessaloniki...

  • Music Museum of Macedonia
    Music Museum of Macedonia
    Music Museum of Macedonia is a museum in Thessaloniki, Greece....

  • Museum of the Cultural Foundation of the Greek Diaspora
    Museum of the Cultural Foundation of the Greek Diaspora
    Museum of the Cultural Foundation of the Greek Diaspora is a museum in Thessaloniki, Greece....

  • Museum of the Macedonian Art Society
    Museum of the Macedonian Art Society
    Museum of the Macedonian Art Society is a museum in Thessaloniki, Greece....

  • National Bank Museum of the Cultural Center of Northern Greece
    National Bank Museum of the Cultural Center of Northern Greece
    The National Bank Museum of the Cultural Center of Northern Greece is a museum in Thessaloniki, Greece....

  • Museum of Photography Thessaloniki
Industry, Maritime, Military, Mill, Railway, Science, Technology
  • Railway Museum of Thessaloniki
    Railway Museum of Thessaloniki
    The Railway Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum in Eleftherio-Kordelio, a municipality of the city of Thessaloniki, Greece. It was founded in 2001 and is housed in the old Military Railway Station A of the Thessaloniki-Constantinople Railway , near the current TX-3 signalbox...

  • Science Center and Technology Museum "Noesis"
  • War Museum of Thessaloniki
    War Museum of Thessaloniki
    -See also:*Athens War Museum*War Museum of Chania*Military and war museums in Greece-External links:*...

  • Water Supply Museum
Children, Education, Special Interests, Sports, University

Imathia Prefecture
Imathia Prefecture
Imathia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Central Macedonia. The capital of Imathia is the city of Veroia.-Administration:The regional unit Imathia is subdivided into 3 municipalities...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Veroia
  • Vergina
    Vergina
    Vergina is a small town in northern Greece, located in the peripheral unit of Imathia, Central Macedonia. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Veroia, of which it is a municipal unit...

     (Building for the protection of the royal tombs > see section)
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic

Kilkis Prefecture
Kilkis Prefecture
Kilkis is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Central Macedonia. Its capital is the city of Kilkis.-Geography:The mountains near Kilkis are Paiko to the west, parts of the western part of Kerkini to the northeast and Krousia to the east...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Kilkis
History, War

Serres Prefecture
Serres Prefecture
Serres is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of Central Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Serres. The total population reaches just over 200,000.-Geography:...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic

Chalkidiki

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Polygyros
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic

Pella Prefecture
Pella Prefecture
Pella is one of the regional units of Greece, in the geographic region of Macedonia. It is part of the Region of Central Macedonia. It is named after the ancient city of Pella, the capital of ancient Macedonia. The capital of Pella is Edessa....

Archaeological

Rhodope Prefecture
Rhodope Prefecture
Rhodope is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its name is derived from the Rhodope Mountains, which cover the northern part of its territory. Together with the regional units Evros and Xanthi, it forms the geographical region of Western...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Komotini
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
Folklore, Folk art
  • Basketry Museum of the Roma
  • Folklore Museum of Komotini

Kavala Prefecture
Kavala Prefecture
Kavala is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its capital is the town of Kavala. Kavala regional unit is the easternmost within the geographical region of Macedonia.-Geography:...

Archaeological
Folklore, Folk art
Industry, Maritime, Military, Mill, Railway, Science, Technology

Evros Prefecture
Evros Prefecture
Evros is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace. Its name is derived from the river Evros, which appears to have been a Thracian hydronym. Evros is the northernmost regional unit. It borders Turkey to the east, across the river Evros, and it...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Samothrace (N.Aegean island)
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
Ethnographic, History

Kozani Prefecture
Kozani Prefecture
Kozani is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Macedonia. Its capital is the city of Kozani.-Geography:Kozani borders the regional units of Kastoria to the west and northwest, Florina to the north, Pella to the northeast, Imathia and Pieria to the east, Larissa ...

Archaeological
  • Aiani Archaeological Museum
    Aiani Archaeological Museum
    The Aiani Archaeological Museum is a museum in Aiani, Greece.Although the museum was inaugurated in 1970, with a collection of antiquities of the ancient city but in 1983 a number of major additional finds meant that the museum had to be expanded considerably to house the new objects...

  • Archaeological Museum of Kozani
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
  • Ecclesiastical Museum of Siatista
Ethnographic, History, Folklore, Folk art
  • Folklore Museum of Velvendos
  • Historical - Folklore and Natural History Museum of Kozani
  • Museum of Modern Local History of Kozani
    Museum of Modern Local History of Kozani
    Museum of Modern Local History of Kozani is a museum in Kozani, Greece. It was founded in 2006....

Natural History, Geology, Paleontology
  • Paleontological and Historical Museum of Ptolemais

Kastoria Prefecture
Kastoria Prefecture
Kastoria is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Kastoria.-Geography:...

Archaeological
  • Dispilio Lakeside Neolithic Settlement Archaeological Collection
    Dispilio Lakeside Neolithic Settlement Archaeological Collection
    The Dispilio Lakeside Neolithic Settlement Archaeological Collection is a museum in Dispilio in Greece. It was the first Neolithic settlement by the side of a lake excavated in that country. Many important artifacts were found, the most notable being the Dispilio Tablet.-External links:****...

Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
  • Byzantine Museum of Kastoria
Folklore, Folk art

Florina Prefecture
Florina Prefecture
Florina is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Florina.-Geography:Florina borders the regional units of Pella to the east, Kozani to the south and Kastoriá to the southwest...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Florina
Art museums and galleries
  • Florina Museum of Modern Art
    Florina Museum of Modern Art
    The Florina Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Florina in Greece. It was founded by the Florina Art Centre in 1977. It is housed in a neoclassical building by the Skouleva river. The museum's collection is composed of 480 works by 254 artists, which includes paintings, sculptures and engravings...





Ioannina Prefecture
Ioannina Prefecture
Ioannina is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital is the city of Ioannina. It is the largest regional unit in Epirus, and one of the largest regional units of Greece.-Geography:...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Ioannina
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
  • Byzantine Museum of Ioannina
    Byzantine Museum of Ioannina
    The Byzantine Museum is housed in one of the buildings of the acropolis, inside the castle of Ioannina. The central section was built in the 1960's and originally functioned as a Royal Pavilion.- History :The museum was opened to the public in 1995....

Ethnographic, History, War
Folklore, Folk art
  • Folk Art Museum of Epirus - "Kostas Frontzos"
  • Museum of the Foundation for the Epirotic Studies
    Museum of the Foundation for the Epirotic Studies
    Museum of the Foundation for the Epirotic Studies is a museum in Ioannina, Greece....

  • Tositsa Baron Museum of Metsovo
    Tositsa Baron Museum of Metsovo
    The Tositsa Baron Museum of Metsovo, also known as the Tositsa Museum is a folk art museum in Metsovo, Ioannina, Greece.-External links:****...

Art museums and galleries
  • Averoff Gallery
    Averoff Gallery
    The Averoff Gallery, also known as the Averof Art Gallery of Metsovo, is an Art museum in Metsovo, Greece. It was built in 1985 and inaugurated in 1988. In 1994 the building was extended to include a new wing and its faciliteies were updated...

     (Metsovo)
  • Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina
    Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina
    Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina is a museum in Ioannina, Greece....


Arta Prefecture
Arta Prefecture
Arta is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital is the town of Arta.-Geography:The regional unit of Arta is located north of the Ambracian Gulf. The main mountain ranges are the Athamanika in the northeast, the Pindus in the east, and Valtou in the...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Collection of Arta
Folklore, Folk art
  • Arta Folklore Museum of "Skoufas" Association

Thesprotia
Thesprotia
Thesprotia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital is the town of Igoumenitsa. It is named after the Thesprotians, an ancient Greek tribe that inhabited the region in antiquity.-History:...

Archaeological



Magnesia
Magnesia Prefecture
Magnesia Prefecture was one of the prefectures of Greece. Its capital was Volos. It was established in 1899 from the Larissa Prefecture. The prefecture was disbanded on 1 January 2011 by the Kallikratis programme, and split into the peripheral units of Magnesia and the Sporades.The toponym is...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Almyros
  • Archaeological Museum of Volos
    Archaeological Museum of Volos
    The Archaeological Museum of Volos, also known as Athanasakeion Archaeological Museum of Volos, is a museum located in Volos, Greece, that houses many exquisite finds from early 20th century and modern archaeological excavations in Thessaly...

Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
Biographical, Ethnographic, History
  • Alonissos Museum (Sporades)
  • Papadiamantis House Museum of Skiathos
    Papadiamantis House Museum of Skiathos
    Papadiamantis House Museum of Skiathos is a museum in Skiathos in The Sporades, Magnesia, Greece.It is the house of Greek writer Alexandros Papadiamantis' located some 100 meters far from the eastern beach of the town....

     (Sporades)
  • Hellenic Museum of Zagora
    Hellenic Museum of Zagora
    The Hellenic Museum of Zagora, also known as the Old School of Rigas, is a historic school museum in Magnesia, Greece.-External links:*** "The school of Rigas Fereos or Hellenic museum as it was known, the oldest school on Pelion"***...

Folklore, Folk art
  • Folklore Museum of Skopelos
  • Folk Art and History Museum of Pilion
  • Kitsos Makris Folklore Museum
  • Theofilos Museum of Anakasia
    Theofilos Museum of Anakasia
    The Theofilos Museum of Anakasia is a museum in Magnesia, Greece.-External links:***...

Art museums and galleries
  • Alexander K.Damtsas Museum
    Alexander K.Damtsas Museum
    Alexander K.Damtsas Museum is a museum in Volos, Magnesia, Greece.-External links:* Official website* , Greek only...

  • Chrysoula Zogia Museum and Art Gallery
  • Municipal Art Gallery of Volos
    Municipal Art Gallery of Volos
    Municipal Art Gallery of Volos is a museum in Volos, Magnesia, Greece....

  • Photographic Center of Skopelos (Sporades)
Industry, Railway, Technology
  • Thessaly Railway Museum
  • Tsalapatas National Museum of Industrial History

Larissa Prefecture
Larissa Prefecture
Larissa is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Thessaly. Its capital is the city of Larissa. -Geography:...

Archaeological and Byzantine
Ethnographic, Historical, Folklore, Folk art, Ecclesiastical
Art museums and Galleries
Anthropology, Natural History, Geology, Paleontology
Military, Science, Biographical, Education




Phthiotis
Phthiotis
Phthiotis is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia. It is bordered by the Malian Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Evrytania in the west,...

Archaeological
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic

Phocis
Phocis
Phocis is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. It stretches from the western mountainsides of Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth...

Archaeological

Euboea Prefecture

Archaeological
Folklore, Folk art

Boeotia Prefecture

Archaeological




Corfu Prefecture
Corfu Prefecture
Corfu is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Ionian Islands. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Corfu. The regional unit consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikoussa, Mathraki and several smaller islands, all in the Ionian...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Corfu
    Archaeological Museum of Corfu
    The Archaeological Museum of Corfu in Corfu, Greece was built between 1962 - 1965. The museum land was donated by the city of Corfu. Its initial purpose was to house the archaeological finds from the Temple of Artemis in Corfu. In 1994 it was expanded with the addition of two more exhibit halls...

Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
  • Byzantine Museum of Antivouniotissa
Biographical, Ethnic, History
  • Kapodistrias Museum
    Kapodistrias Museum
    The Kapodistrias Museum or Kapodistrias Museum–Centre of Kapodistrian Studies is a museum dedicated to the memory and life's work of Ioannis Kapodistrias. It is located in the area Koukouritsa of Evropouli in Corfu, Greece...

  • Serbian Museum of Corfu
    Serbian Museum of Corfu
    The Serbian Museum of Corfu is a museum in Corfu , Greece. It houses rare exhibits about the Serbian soldiers' tragic fate during the First World War...

  • Solomos Museum http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3503
Art museums and galleries
  • Museum of Asian art of Corfu
    Museum of Asian art of Corfu
    Museum of Asian art of Corfu is a museum in Corfu , Greece. It is dedicated to the art of Asia, with collections of Chinese art, Japanese art, Indian art and others.Entrance fee in October 2009 is 3 euros....

Music Museum
  • The Music Museum 'Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros' of the Philharmonic Society of Corfu
    Philharmonic Society of Corfu
    The Philharmonic Society of Corfu is today widely known as a community band in Corfu, Greece. However, when it was founded in 1840, its initial scope was to become the first Greek music academy organised on European prototypes...


Zakynthos
Zakynthos
Zakynthos , also Zante, the other form often used in English and in Italian , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It covers an area of ...

Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
Biographical, History

Kefalonia and Ithaca Prefecture
Kefalonia and Ithaca Prefecture
The Cephalonia Prefecture was a prefecture in Greece, containing the Ionian islands of Cephalonia and Ithaca. In 2011 the prefectural self-government was abolished and the territory is now covered by the peripheral units of Cephalonia and Ithaca.-Provinces:...

Archaeological

Lefkada
Lefkada
Lefkada, or Leucas or Leucadia , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Lefkada . It is situated on the northern part of the island,...

Archaeological



Achaea
Achaea
Achaea is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Greece. It is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The capital is Patras. The population exceeds 300,000 since 2001.-Geography:...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Aigion
  • Archaeological Museum of Patras
  • Fissini Street Archeological Collection
    Fissini Street Archeological Collection
    Fissini Street Archeological Collection is a museum in Patras, Greece....

     (Patras)
Ethnographic, History
  • Historical Museum of The Aghia Lavra Monastery
  • Museum of the Sacrifice of the People of Kalavryta
Folklore, Folk art
  • Folk Art Museum of Patras
    Folk Art Museum of Patras
    Folk Art Museum of Patras is a museum in Patras, Greece. It was founded in 1977 by the Cultural Centre of Patras....

Art museums and galleries, Popular art
Natural history

Aetolia-Acarnania
Aetolia-Acarnania
Aetolia-Acarnania is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the regional unit is a combination of the geographic regions Aetolia and Acarnania. Its capital is Missolonghi for historical reasons, with its biggest...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Agrinion
    Archaeological Museum of Agrinion
    The Archaeological Museum of Agrinion is a museum located in the city of Agrinio in the Etoloakrnania prefecture. It lies next to the Agrinio Park and features artifacts dating back to the ancient times and the Roman times from the area around Agrinio and the ancient city...

  • Archaeological Museum of Thyrreion http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3316
Ethnographic, Folklore, History
  • Aitoloakarnania Folklore Museum
    Aitoloakarnania Folklore Museum
    Aitoloakarnania Folklore Museum is a museum in Agrinio, Greece.The museum was founded in 1977 by the pan-Aitoloakarnanian women's association.The exhibit features about 1500 items, mostly over the historical period from 1821 to 1920....

  • Museum of the History of the Holy City of Mesolongi
    Museum of the History of the Holy City of Mesolongi
    The Museum of the History of the Holy City of Mesolongi is a museum in Mesolongi in Greece.-External links:** "In the central square, the Town Hall houses the picture gallery" -?*...

  • Ethnographic Museum of Kaletzi
    Ethnographic Museum of Kaletzi
    Ethnographic Museum of Kaletzi is a museum in Patras, Greece.This museum is located in Kaltetzi, Greece. It features many interesting things depicting the way life used to be in Ancient Greece....

  • Ethnographic Museum of Lefkasio
    Ethnographic Museum of Lefkasio
    Ethnographic Museum of Lefkasio is a museum in Patras, Greece....


Ilia Prefecture

Archaeological
Sports
Technology
  • Museum of Ancient Greek Technology
    Museum of Ancient Greek Technology
    The Museum of Ancient Greek Technology is a museum in Katakolo, Ilia Prefecture in Greece. It was founded by Kostas Kotsanas and holds 200 operating reconstructions of mechanisms and inventions of the ancient Greeks covering the period from 2200 BC to 100 AD....

     (Ilia)



Argolis
Argolis
Argolis is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula.-Geography:...

Archaeological
Folklore, Folk art

Messenia
Messenia
Messenia is a regional unit in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese region, one of 13 regions into which Greece has been divided by the Kallikratis plan, implemented 1 January 2011...

Archaeological

Arcadia
Arcadia
Arcadia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan...

Archaeological
Open air

Corinthia
Corinthia
Corinthia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Peloponnese. It is situated around the city of Corinth, in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula.-Geography:...

Archaeological
Ethnographic, Folklore, Historical
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Corinth

Laconia
Laconia
Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. Its administrative capital is Sparti...

Archaeological
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
  • Archaeological Museum of Mystras



Chios Prefecture
Chios Prefecture
Chios is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of North Aegean. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Chios. The regional unit consists of the islands of Chios, Psara, Oinousses and some smaller uninhabited islands , all in the Aegean Sea.-Administration:The...

Archaeological
  • Archaeological Museum of Chios
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
Maritime

Lesbos Prefecture
Lesbos Prefecture
Lesbos Prefecture was one of the prefectures of Greece. It consisted of three main islands: Lesbos itself, Lemnos, and the smaller island of Agios Efstratios. In 2011 the prefecture was abolished and the territory is now covered by the peripheral units of Lesbos and Lemnos...

Archaeological
Geology, Natural History, Paleontology
  • Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest

Samos Prefecture
Samos Prefecture
Samos Prefecture was a prefecture in Greece, consisting of the islands of Samos, Ikaria and the smaller islands of Fournoi Korseon. In 2011 the prefecture was abolished and the territory is now covered by the peripheral units of Samos and Ikaria...

Archaeological



Cyclades
Cyclades
The Cyclades is a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name refers to the islands around the sacred island of Delos...

Archaeological
Folklore, Folk art
  • Mykonos Folklore Museum
Art museums and galleries
  • Andros Museum of Modern Art
    Andros Museum of Modern Art
    -History:The museum was founded in 1979 by Bazil and Elise Goulandri as a venue in which international exhibitions could be housed. The building was designed by architect Stamos Papadakis and the exterior areas were designed by Miranda Spiliotopoulou-Vazaka....

Maritime
Natural History, Paleontology

Dodecanese
Dodecanese
The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, of which 26 are inhabited. Τhis island group generally defines the eastern limit of the Sea of Crete. They belong to the Southern Sporades island group...

Archaeological
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
Biographical, Historical
  • Vouvalis Mansion (Kalymnos) (Greek)
Folklore, Folk art
  • Decorative Arts Collection, Rhodes (Greek)
Natural History
  • Aquarium of Rhodes
    Aquarium of Rhodes
    The Aquarium of Rhodes is a research centre, aquarium and museum in Rhodes, Greece. It was built in the 1930, when the island was under the Italian rule....

  • Museum of Mineralogy & Paleontology Stamatiadis, Rhodes http://www.geomuseum.gr



Chania Prefecture
Chania Prefecture
Chania is one of the four regional units of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania. Chania borders only one other regional unit: that of Rethymno to the east. The western part of Crete is bounded to the north by the Cretan Sea, and to the west...

Archaeological
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
  • Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Collection of Chania
  • Museum of the Monastery of Agia Triada Tsangarolon
  • Museum of the Monastery of Chryssopighi
    Museum of the Monastery of Chryssopighi
    Museum of the Monastery of Chryssopighi is a museum in Kissamos, Chania, Crete , Greece.-External links:*****...

  • Museum of the Monastery of Gonia
    Museum of the Monastery of Gonia
    -External links:****...

Biographical, Ethnographic, History
  • Eleftherios Venizelos Museum of Chalepa
    Eleftherios Venizelos Museum of Chalepa
    Eleftherios Venizelos Museum of Chalepa is a planned museum in Chania, Crete , Greece. It is the paternal house of Eleftherios Venizelos, where he lived from 1880 to 1910, and occasionally, from 1927 to 1935. In March 2002, the Greek state assumed the ownership of the Venizelos residence, and then...

Historical, Folklore
Maritime, War
  • Maritime Museum of Crete
    Maritime Museum of Crete
    The Nautical Museum of Crete is a museum in Chania, Crete , Greece. Its collection includes models of ships, nautical instruments, painting, historical photographs and war relics...

  • War Museum of Chania
    War Museum of Chania
    War Museum of Chania is a museum in Chania, Crete , Greece, annex of the War Museum of Athens. It was founded on July 1995. The museum exhibits photographs, war artifacts and other items from the national wars and revolutions of the Greek History...

Children, Education
  • School Life Museum
    School Life Museum
    The School Life Museum is a museum in Nerokouros, Chania, Crete, Greece.The museum seeks to develop into a centre of culture which will focus on the educational and pedagogical practices of the past, the present and the future.-External links:* *...


Heraklion Prefecture
Heraklion Prefecture
Heraklion is one of the four regional units of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion.-Geography:The regional unit of Heraklion borders on the regional units of Rethymno to the west and Lasithi to the east. Farmlands are situated in the central and the northern parts, at the coast and in...

Archaeological
  • Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
  • Collection of Agia Aikaterini of Sinai
  • Collection of Agios Matthaios of Sinai
Biographical, Ethnographic, History, War
  • Historical Museum of Crete
    Historical Museum of Crete
    The Historical Museum of Crete is a museum in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. The Museum presents a comprehensive view of Cretan history from early Christian times to the present day. It was founded in 1953 by the Society of Cretan Historical Studies, which had been established two years earlier...

  • Museum of Cretan Ethnology
    Museum of Cretan Ethnology
    The Museum of Cretan Ethnology is a museum in Vori, in the municipality of Tympaki, Heraklion Prefecture, southern Crete, Greece. Established as an institution in 1973, the museum was built under the French architect Georges Henri Rivière, the creator of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions...

  • Museum of the Battle of Crete
    Museum of the Battle of Crete
    The Municipal Museum of the Battle of Crete and the National Resistance is a historical museum in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.-External links:**...

  • Nikos Kazantzakis Museum
Folklore, Open Air
  • Lychnostatis Open Air Museum
    Lychnostatis Open Air Museum
    Lychnostatis Open Air Museum is a museum in Hersonissos, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. It is an autonomous private foundation, established in July 1992, based on private collection owned by ophthalmologist Yiorgos Markakis. The Markakis and local workers were responsible for the building of the museum...

Art museums and galleries
  • Museum of Visual Arts
    Museum of Visual Arts
    Museum of Visual Arts is a museum located on Nymphon Street in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.The museum was established in order to support cultural and artistic activity and to promote the work of Cretan artists....

Natural History

Rethymno Prefecture
Rethymno Prefecture
Rethymno is one of the four regional units of Crete, Greece. Its capital is the city of Rethymno. Today its main income is tourism. The countryside is also based economically on agriculture and herding.-Administration:...

Archaeological
Byzantine, Ecclesiastic
  • Museum of the Monastery of Arkadi
  • Museum of the Monastery of Preveli
Ethnographic, Folklore, Historical
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Rethymno
Folklore, Folk art
  • The Frantzeskaki Collection
Art museums and galleries
  • Municipal Gallery "L.Kanakakis"
Natural history
  • Museum of Sea Life at Rethymno

Lasithi
Lasithi
Lasithi is the easternmost regional unit on the island of Crete, to the east of Heraklion. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli. The mountains include the Dikte to the west and the Sitia Mountains to the east...

Archaeological



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