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Museum · Athens Municipality

National Archaeological Museum of Athens

The greatest collection of ancient Greek art in the world.

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About the museum

Founded in 1829 and in its present building since 1889, the museum covers Greece from the Stone Age to Roman times.

Three reasons to go

  1. 1The gold of Mycenae

    Gold masks, cups and jewellery from the royal graves.

  2. 2Bronze gods

    Statues found in the sea: the god from Artemision and the boy jockey.

  3. 3The Antikythera mechanism

    A 2,000-year-old geared machine that calculated the sky.

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Six things to look for. Works sometimes move, so ask at the desk.

  1. 01Highlight Nº

    Mask of Agamemnon

    A gold death mask from Mycenae, 1550 BC.

    Mycenaean hall
  2. 02Highlight Nº

    The god of Artemision

    A bronze Zeus or Poseidon, about to throw.

    Bronze collection
  3. 03Highlight Nº

    The jockey of Artemision

    A small boy riding a galloping horse.

    Bronze collection
  4. 04Highlight Nº

    The Antikythera mechanism

    Bronze gears from a shipwreck.

    Antikythera room

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Mycenae, the Cycladic figures and the great bronzes.

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How to get there

National Archaeological Museum of Athens

28is Oktovriou (Patission) 44, Athens Municipality

  • MetroLine 1Viktoria10 min walk walk
  • MetroLines 1 / 2Omonia10 min walk walk
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Hidden story

The first computer

Sponge divers found a machine that counted the stars.

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In 1900 sponge divers found an ancient shipwreck off the island of Antikythera. Among the statues was a lump of corroded bronze. Over a century of study, with X-rays and scans, showed it was a machine with dozens of gears that predicted eclipses, the phases of the moon and the dates of the Olympic Games. Nothing as complex is known until the clocks of medieval Europe.

See it: Antikythera room

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Where is National Archaeological Museum of Athens?

National Archaeological Museum of Athens is in Athens Municipality, Attica Region, Greece. Address: 28is Oktovriou (Patission) 44, Athens Municipality.

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