List of museums in Greece

  • 4.1 Archaeology
  • 4.2 Other cultural institutions
  • 4.3 World Heritage

This is a list of museums in Greece.

About 200 public and 100 private museums and galleries in Greece presenting art treasures from more than six millennia history to the present, with emphasis in the areas of Greek art, culture and history. The collections of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens and the other major archaeological museums are among the most important collections in the world.

Museums by typology

Archaeological museums and collections

  • National Archaeological Museum of Athens
  • Acropolis Museum Athens
  • Museum of Cycladic Art Athens
  • Archaeological Museum of Ancient Agora Athens
  • Paul and Alexandra Kanellopoulos Museum Athens
  • Archaeological Museum of Abdera
  • Archaeological Museum of Aegina
  • Agios Nikolaos Archaeological Museum
  • Archaeological Museum of Agrinio
  • Archaeological Museum Aiani
  • Archaeological Museum Aigion
  • Archaeological Museum Amfissa
  • Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis
  • Archaeological Museum of Andros
  • Archaeological Museum of Argos
  • Archaeological Museum of Argostoli
  • Archaeological Museum of Arta
  • Archaeological Museum of Astros
  • Archaeological Museum of Chaeronea
  • Archaeological Museum Chalkidiki ( Polygiros )
  • Archaeological Museum of Chania
  • Archaeological Museum of Chios
  • Delphi Archaeological Museum
  • Archaeological Museum of Delos
  • Archaeological Museum of Dion
  • Archaeological Museum Drama
  • Archaeological Museum of Edessa
  • Archaeological Museum of Eleusis
  • Archaeological Museum of Epidaurus
  • Archaeological Museum of Florina
  • Archaeological Museum Gythion
  • Heraklion Archaeological Museum
  • Archaeological Museum Ikaria
  • Archaeological Museum of Isthmia
  • Archaeological Museum of Kalamata ( Benakeion )
  • Archaeological Museum of Kavala
  • Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos
  • Archaeological Museum of Kilkis
  • Archaeological Museum of Kissamos
  • Archaeological Museum of Komotini
  • Archaeological Museum of Corfu
  • Archaeological Museum of Corinth
  • Archaeological Museum of Kos
  • Archaeological Museum of Kozani
  • Archaeological Museum Kythira
  • Archaeological Museum of Lavrion
  • Archaeological Museum Limenaria
  • Archaeological Museum of Lemnos
  • Archaeological Museum of Marathon
  • Archaeological Museum of Megara
  • Archaeological Collection of Monemvasia
  • Archaeological Museum of Mycenae
  • Archaeological Museum of Mykonos
  • Archaeological Museum of Mytilene
  • Archaeological Museum of Nafplio
  • Archaeological Museum of Naxos
  • Archaeological Museum of Nemea
  • Archaeological Museum of Olympia
  • Archaeological Museum Olynthus
  • Archaeological Museum of Patras
  • Archaeological Museum of Pella
  • Archaeological Museum of Philippi
  • Archaeological Museum of Piraeus
  • Archaeological Museum Poliyiros
  • Archaeological Museum of Poros
  • Archaeological Museum of Rhodes
  • Archaeological Museum of Samos
  • Archaeological Museum of Samothrace
  • Archaeological Museum Schimatari
  • Archaeological Museum Serres
  • Archaeological Museum Setaia
  • Archaeological Museum of Sparta
  • Archaeological Museum of Spetses
  • Archaeological Museum of Tegea
  • Archaeological Museum of Thassos
  • Archaeological Museum of Thebes
  • Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
  • Archaeological Museum of Thira
  • Prehistoric Thira Museum
  • Archaeological Museum Thyrreiou
  • Archaeological Museum of Tripoli
  • Archaeological Museum of Veria
  • Archaeological Museum of Volos
  • Archaeological Museum Vravrona
  • Museum of the Royal Tombs of Vergina

Museums of Byzantine and post-Byzantine art

  • Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens
  • Ecclesiastical Museum of Alexandroupolis
  • Byzantine Museum in Corfu Antivouniotissa
  • Byzantine and post-Byzantine Collection of Chania
  • Byzantine Museum of Chios
  • Byzantine Museum of Florina
  • Byzantine Museum Fthiotida
  • Byzantine Museum of Ioannina
  • Byzantine Museum of Kastoria
  • Byzantine Museum Komotini
  • Byzantine Museum of Corfu
  • Museum of Byzantine Culture Thessaloniki
  • Byzantine Museum of Veria
  • Byzantine Museum of Zakynthos

Historical and Folklore Museums

  • National Historical Museum
  • Museum of Greek Folk Art Athens
  • Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments Athens
  • Historical Museum of the University of Athens
  • Jewish Museum Athens
  • Historical Museum of Aegina
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Afytos
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Arnaia
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Drama
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Chania
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Corgialenos
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Edessa
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Fthiotida in Lamia
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Florina
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Giannitsa
  • Macedonian Folklore Museum Goumenissa
  • Historical Museum of Heraklion
  • Historical Museum of Ioannina
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Kalamata
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Kallimasia
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Kastoria
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Kilkis
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Kollines
  • Roma basket Museum Komotini
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Corinth
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Kythnos
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Kozani
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Larissa
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Mykonos
  • Peloponnesisches Folklore Museum Nafplio
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Nea Karvali
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Orestiada
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Patras
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Pella
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Petrokerasa
  • Historical Museum of Piraeus
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Polygiros
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Ptolemais
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Reichia
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Rethymno
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Rhodes
  • Historical and Folklore Museum of Samos
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Serres
  • Historical and Folklore Museum Stemnitsa
  • Ethnography and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace in Thessaloniki
  • Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki
  • Museum of Cretan folk art Voroi

Art Museums

Museum of Applied Arts

  • Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum Athens
  • Museum of Decorative Arts Rhodes
  • Museum of Photography Thessaloniki

Museums of Fine Arts ( latter day )

  • National Gallery and Alexander Soutzos Museum Athens
  • National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
  • Museum of the City of Athens
  • Municipal Gallery of Athens
  • Benaki Museum Athens
  • Tsarouchis Museum Athens
  • Vorres Museum of Contemporary Greek Art
  • Frissiras Museum of contemporary painting
  • Alex Mylona Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Herakleidon Museum of Fine Arts
  • G. Gounaro Museum
  • Christos Kapralos Museum Aegina
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Andros
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Florina
  • Museum of Fine Arts Heraklion
  • Arcadian Museum of Art and History in Levidi
  • Municipal Gallery of Patras
  • Theofilos Museum Mytilini
  • Museum of Modern Greek Art Rhodes
  • State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki
  • Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki

Museums for the Performing Arts

  • Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments Athens
  • Cinema Museum Thessaloniki

Natural History Museums

  • Museums of the University of Athens Anthropological Museum Athens
  • Archaeology and Art History Museum Athens
  • Botanical Museum in Athens National Garden
  • Mineralogical and Petrologisches Museum Athens
  • Palaeontological and Geological Museum Athens
  • Zoological Museum Athens
  • Botanical Museum of Patras
  • Zoological Museum of Patras

Military Museums

  • War Museum of Athens
  • Museum of the Hellenic Air Force Athens
  • War Museum of Chania
  • Museum of the Battle for Crete and National Resistance in Heraklion
  • War Museum of Kilkis
  • Military Museum of Kalamata
  • War Museum of Nafplio
  • War Museum Skra Axioupoli
  • Greek Naval Museum of Piraeus
  • Museum of the Macedonian Struggle in Thessaloniki
  • War Museum of Tripoli

Technology museums

  • OTE Telecom Museum Athens
  • Museum of Ancient Technology in Katakolon
  • NOESIS Science Center and Technology Museum Thessaloniki
  • Water Museum of Thessaloniki
  • Museum of Science and Technology ( MST) University of Patras

Auto Museums

See: List of car museums in Greece

Railway museums

Maritime museums

  • Maritime Museum of Andros
  • Maritime Museum Chania
  • Maritime Museum Galaxidi
  • Aegean Maritime Museum of Mykonos

Museums with particular thematic focus

  • Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens
  • Museum of Asian Art Corfu
  • Banknote Museum of Corfu
  • Olive Oil Museum Sparta
  • Silk Museum Soufli
  • Bee Museum of Rhodes
  • Olympic Museum Thessaloniki
  • Patras Education Museum

Biographical museums ( without art museums)

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