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The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the biggest museum in Greece, and one of the most important ones worldwide.The rich collections, with more than 11.000 exhibits, offer the visitor a complete image of the ancient Greek civilization..
The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the biggest museum in Greece, and one of the most important ones worldwide. Originally planned as a receptacle of the entirety of digs of the 19th century, especially from Attica, but from other parts of Greece too, gradually it formed into a central National Archaeological Museum, and was enriched with findings from all around the greek world. The rich collections, with more than 11.000 exhibits, offer the visitor a complete image of the ancient Greek civilization.
Around the middle of the 6th century BC, the Agora of Athens was founded on the northwest of the Sacred Hill of Acropolis. For the following four centuries, it has been the center of the social and financial life of the city. Around the Agora, various public buildings and shrines were erected.
The house he lived in, where he wrote and died, after being destroyed by the WWII bombardments, was later restructured and still exists to this day. In Solomos’s house, the Company of Corfu Studies founded the Centre for Solomos Studies, which operates as “Solomos Museum”.
The Archanes Arachaeolgical Collection was inaugurated on August 21 1993, in the centre of the Archanes town, on the Tzami district.The exhibits are laid out in chronological order.
GNTO Registry Number: 1039Ε60000070000
Number GE.MI. 118062927000