Acropoli

Stamatios Kleanthis and Eduard Schaubert, the architects who devised the new city plan for Athens, purchased this building believed to have been built during the Ottoman period. It later functioned the first University of Athens (1837-1841). Today it houses rare editions of books, scientific decrees, newspapers, and other documents relating to university life and courses that were taught at the time as well as scientific instruments related to physics, chemistry, medicine and pharmacology.

The Museum of Greek Children's Art ( M.G.C.A.) exhibits drawings and three dimensional artwork by children 4 to 14 years old. It focuses in the field of children's artistic creativity and is one of the few world-wide on the subject. Created in 1994, it aims from the start to study and present children's art, to develop children's aesthetic education, to exchange exhibitions and collaborate with relevant institutions in Greece and abroad.The Museum's collections are enriched annually and presently include some 6.000 items. Drawing from its collections the M.G.C.A. renews its exhibits every other year, hosting each time a different theme. Interactive activity corners have been specially designed in order to offer visitors of all ages a creative (bilingual) experience in the exhibitions areas.The Museum's gift shop offers books, postcards, posters, art games and a variety of gifts featuring children's art from its collections.A number of exhibitions have been organized by the Museum, promoting children's art. Among the most important in Greece, those held at the Museum of Cycladic Art and the Ethnological Museum, the Athens University, the Hellenic American Union in Athens, the Athens Concert Hall, the Basilica of St. Mark in Crete and abroad at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, the European Parliament in Strasbourg and the Hamada Museum of Children's Art in Japan..

A private collection donated to the Greek state. Housed in a neoclassical building -- at the base of the Acropolis and above the Ancient Agora -- the museum houses works of art from the prehistoric age until the Byzantine Empire.

A collection of over 4,000 jewels and small ornaments dedicated to the history and art of jewelery making by one of Greece's most renowned jewelery designers, Ilias Lalounis.

While all of Athens’ new metro stations are graced with classical and contemporary works of art, the Acropolis station is a special gem. The archaeological exhibit here is a clear indication of the modern, yet classical depth of the Athens of today. The ultra-modern station boasts vitrines of fine replicas of sculptures from the Parthenon and actual findings found during the amazing underground construction of the station.

The Atelier Spyros Vassiliou aspires to recompose the artistic progression of one of the most acclaimed, reputed and prolific exponents of contemporary Greek art. To this end, the museum disposes of a representative range of Spyros Vassiliou’s works, but is principally concerned with systematizing his exceptionally copious archives. These comprise manuscripts in the painter’s hand; his correspondence, contracts, documents relative to purchases of his works; the preparation and hanging of exhibitions (with their respective catalogues); a comprehensively updated Press archive, as well as maquettes and preliminary sketches for his work.