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Art in Athens
The collections and galleries worth planning a day around.
Makrygianni
Acropolis Museum
Bernard Tschumi’s glass museum over a live excavation, with the Parthenon gallery aligned to the temple itself.
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Exarchia
National Archaeological Museum
The greatest collection of ancient Greek art: the Mask of Agamemnon, the Antikythera Mechanism and the bronze god from Artemision.
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Kolonaki
Benaki Museum
Greek art and daily life from antiquity to the 20th century in a Kolonaki mansion, with a rooftop café.
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Kerameikos
Benaki Museum of Islamic Art
Ceramics, metalwork, textiles and a reconstructed Cairo reception room in two neoclassical houses near Kerameikos.
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Kolonaki
Museum of Cycladic Art
The pared-back marble figurines that inspired modernist sculptors, displayed with real clarity.
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Kolonaki
Byzantine and Christian Museum
Icons, mosaics and frescoes in a garden villa on Vasilissis Sofias.
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