Benaki Museum

1 Koumpari Street & Vasilissis Sofias Avenue, Kolonaki, Athens

The Benaki Museum houses Greek works of art from the prehistorical to the modern times, an extensive collection of Asian art, hosts periodic exhibitions and maintains a state-of-the-art restoration and conservation workshop. Although the museum initially housed a collection that included Islamic art, Chinese porcelain and exhibits on toys, its 2000 re-opening led to the creation of satellite museums that focused on specific collections, allowing the main museum to focus on Greek culture over the span of the country's history. This Museum in Athens houses over 100,000 artifacts from Greek history and showcases the many eras, civilizations and cultures which have influenced the development of Greece. Spread over a number of locations, the museum ranks among Greece’s foremost cultural institutions.

Ilias Lalaounis Museum

12 Kallisperi Street, Athens

The Ilias Lalounis Jewelry Museum is the first jewelry museum in Greece. It is a non for profit cultural organization certified by the Greek Ministries of Finance and Culture in 1993. The Museum acts as an international center for decorative arts and crafts, with an emphasis on goldsmithing and contemporary studio jewelry. In its twenty eight years of operation, the ILJM has organized over 80 temporary exhibitions with decorative arts from Museum and private collections. The Museum's future agenda includes new educational programs for cultural education through fun and inspirational activities. Check the new Jewelry Artist in Residence Program, the Hephaistos Summer School, the Annual Crafts Bazaar.

Museum of Illusions

Ermou 119 Street, Entrance from Astiggos 12, Monastiraki

Museum of Illusions Athens offers a unique, fun and entertaining experience for visitors of all ages! Optical, photographic and interactive illusions that will fascinate you and also teach you how perceived reality is affected by sciences, vision, perspective and other stimuli. Get ready for a unique and fun experience that will sharpen your mind as you discover the secrets behind the illusions in the most innovative space of experiential entertainment in Athens

Museum of Cycladic Art

4 Neofytou Douka Street, Athens

The Museum of Cycladic Art is a museum in Athens that houses a notable collection of artifacts of Cycladic art. The museum was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris. Starting in the early 1960s, the couple collected Greek antiquities, with special interest in the prehistoric art from the Cyclades islands of the Aegean Sea. The museum's main building, erected in the centre of Athens in 1985, was designed by the Greek architect Ioannis Vikelas. In 1991, the Museum acquired a new building, the neo-classical Stathatos Mansion at the corner of Vassilissis Sofias Avenue and Herodotou Street. The museum's permanent collection includes over 3,000 items, and was described in The New York Times as "one of the world's most significant privately assembled collections of Cycladic antiquities.

Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments

1-3 Diogenous Street, Plaka

The Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments “Fivos Anoyanakis” - Centre for Ethnomusicology was built around 1840. It’s a typical example of architecture during Ottonian times and one of Plaka’s oldest surviving buildings. In 1978, Fivos Anoyanakis, a musicologist and pioneering researcher of Greek traditional music, donated his unique collection of 1,200 musical instruments and sound emitting objects, his library and his treasured archive to the Greek State. The museum is founded In 1991 and is housed in the former residence of the military officer and scholar Georgios Lassanis. It was built using surplus material from the construction of the palace of King Otto. Though the museum is small in size, the exhibits are arranged in a manner that will draw your attention. Musical instruments are grouped according to how the sound is initially produced as well as the body of the instrument (membranophones, aerophones, chordophones etc.). Video projections and audio samples (available in every display) highlight the intangilbe aspect of the instruments to every visitor. The idiophones, a delightful collection of forged and cast bells, spoons, triangles, water whistles, metal cymbals, coins and semantiria. A library, a sound archive and the museum's archives are also available to the public.

Athens Olympic Museum

Leof. Kifisias 37A (Golden Hall), Marousi, Athens

The idea for a museum that carries on the history and authentic spirit of the Olympic Games was born during the 2004 period. Today, the Athens Olympic Museum at the Olympic Park holds a permanent exhibition of Olympic Games memorabilia, athletes’ testimonies, and artefacts from Greek antiquity to present. The museum is also connected (through a footbridge) to the Athens Olympic Sports Centre “Spyros Louis” (OAKA), home to the 2004 Olympic Games and designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. This state-of-the-art museum spotlights the three great milestones of the Olympic Games - Ancient Olympia, Athens 1896, Athens 2004 - and Greece's contribution in the formation of the Olympic Movement. The principles and values of the Olympic Movement are highlighted in the country's first purpose-built institution through a cutting edge interactive multimedia exhibition. The project Ancient Olympia: Common Grounds, a collaboration between the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and Microsoft, is a mixed reality exhibition, using Artificial Intelligence to digitally preserve and restore the site of Ancient Olympia. Visitors can digitally navigate and explore the ancient site, as it stood more than 2,000 years ago. Make sure to download the AR app (Android / iOS) to get the most out of this multi-sensory adventure

Hellenic Motor Museum

33 - 35 Ioulianou, Athens 104 33 Greece

Hellenic Motor Museum is a highlight of the town. Located near the National Archaelogical Museum, the Hellenic Motor Museum showcases cars from the 20th century and currently presents 112 exhibits in a 3,000sqm surface creating the best car scene in Athens. Three whole floors dedicated to technology and the evolution of four wheels, a “story” that starts in the late 1800s and continued until the end of the last century. Avion Voisin, Adler, Packard, Delage, Iso, Dino, Lagonda, Siata, Rolls Royce, Bentley , Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Mercedes, Porsche, BMW are some of the car industries whose cars are housed in the Museum.