The Benaki Museum

Μουσείο Μπενάκη

The Benaki Museum is a network of seven sites across Athens city centre but also in other areas of this dynamic and extraordinary city. Throughout its galleries, different cultures and historical periods meet modern art moves, while rich historical archives bring past wisdom into our contemporary world. Its varied and rare Collection is surrounded by an impressive array of cultural activities. Numerous temporary exhibitions, publications, conferences, concerts and educational programmes make the Benaki Museum a multifarious art institution of the 21st century.

The main building of the Benaki Museum occupies one of the few neoclassical buildings that continue to resist the aesthetic deterioration of postwar Athens. It is located on an exceptionally favourable location in the historic centre of the city, right opposite the lush greenery of the National Gardens and the garden of the Presidential Mansion, and in the same vicinity as related institutions such as the Museum of Cycladic Art and the Byzantine and Christian Museum.

The Benaki Museum building is a complex architectural group with a fairly eventful history.

Other venues

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Pireos St. Annexe

138 Pireos & Andronikou St., Athens, Greece

Museum of Islamic Art

22 Ag. Asomaton & 12 Dipilou St., Athens, Greece

Historical Archives

38 Emm. Benaki & St. Delta St., Kifissia, Greece

Exhibitions and events

The collection of Prehistoric, Ancient Greek and Roman

Permanent exhibition

The collection of Prehistoric, Ancient Greek and Roman antiquities which is formed through the contributions of several Greek and foreign donors, as well as from the reserves of other museums, covers...

Byzantine art

Permanent exhibition

The Byzantine collection links the ancient Greek world to that of modern Greece. The collection is exceptionally rich, although it is not representative of all the different artistic tendencies and...

Post-Byzantine and Neo-Hellenic ar

Permanent exhibition

The collections of ecclesiastical and secular art cover the historical period from the 15th to the 19th century and provide evidence of the high level of culture in the Greek world during the...

Historical heirlooms

Permanent exhibition

The collection of historical heirlooms recreates the history of modern Greece from the end of the 18th century onwards. Many of the objects in the collection are family heirlooms donated by the...

Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Permanent exhibition

Whilst the nucleus of this collection is made up of works from Antonis Benakis' personal collection, the bulk of it is derived from the donation made by Damianos Kyriazis in 1953, as well as from...

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