~3 min
Benaki Museum
1 Koumpari, 1st Municipal Community, Athens, 106 74, Greece
museumhistoryculture
One man spent 35 years buying Greek history, then gave the whole lot away.
~3 min
Museum of Cycladic Art
4 Douka Neofytou, 1st Municipal Community, Athens, 106 74, Greece
museumancientculture
Five thousand years ago, sculptors in the Cycladic islands were carving human figures so minimal, so abstract, so hauntingly modern that when Picasso and Modigliani saw them in the early twentieth century, they thought they'd found proof that modernism was ancient.
~5 min
National Archaeological Museum
44 28is Oktovriou, 1st Municipal Community, Athens, 106 82, Greece
iconicmuseumancient
This is where Greece keeps the really good stuff.
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