Museum · Athens, Attica
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο
The National Archaeological Museum is a national archaeological museum in a neoclassical building at 44 Patission Street in central Athens, with collections dating mainly from 7000 BC to AD 500.
Why go
The museum's own history page says it was founded in 1829 in Aegina, moved to Athens with the capital in 1834, and opened its present building, begun in 1866, to the public in 1889; Hellenic Heritage gives 1866 as the founding year. Hellenic Heritage describes exhibits dating mainly from 7000 BC to AD 500, among them Cycladic figurines, wall paintings from prehistoric Akrotiri on Thera, finds from the royal tombs of Mycenae, sculpture and vases, and a collection of Egyptian and Cypriot antiquities. The museum's visitor regulation says a valid ticket is needed, visitors must keep to the date and any time slot shown on it, and visitors who bought online get priority access; the official ticket store says entry is timed and tickets are not refundable. This record is the National Archaeological Museum on Patission Street, not the Acropolis Museum.
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