Christmas 2025 – Festive events for the whole family!
✨🎄 Beloved museums and cultural venues in Athens invite us to spend quality time with family and friends, or to share our interests, through a rich programme of events for everyone!
From fairy tales and plays for children to musical evenings, festive gastronomic experiences and interactive workshops, this year the holidays become an opportunity for creativity, entertainment and tradition. Discover special suggestions, such as those of the Museum of Cycladic Art, the Acropolis Museum, the Hellenic Children’s Museum, the Theocharakis Foundation, Hellenic Cosmos and the Planetarium, and enjoy holidays full of joy and culture!
The Museum of Cycladic Art (@Museum of Cycladic Art) celebrates December with a variety of events for the whole family. For children, there are performances and fairy-tale storytelling, while adults can enjoy lectures, music and storytelling performances, and traditional treats, in an atmosphere full of joy, carols and surprises.
Christmas at the Museum of Cycladic Art
The Acropolis Museum (@Acropolis Museum) has prepared a festive programme for this Christmas full of magic and tradition, including children’s workshops with mythical creatures, decorating clay amulets and adorning the ancient Eiresione, singing ancient carols, and musical events with the El Sistema Greece orchestra, traditional Cretan dances and the Hellenic Air Force Band. Guided tours and special presentations by archaeologists are also offered, as well as festive dinners with a view of the Acropolis, and ideas for unique gifts, such as the 2026 lucky charm, at the museum shop.
https://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/ekdiloseis-gia-oloys/eortastiko-programma-dekembrios-2025
The Hellenic Children’s Museum (@Hellenic Children’s Museum) travels to the SNFCC’s Christmas World with a programme of workshops and games for the whole family (13 December 2025 – 6 January 2026). Visitors will have the opportunity to create improvised musical instruments and sparkling Christmas snow globes, play games, and make glowing fireflies inspired by nature. Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis for children aged 3-12.
https://www.snfcc.org/event/to-elliniko-paidiko-moyseio-ston-christoygenniatiko-kosmo-toy-kpisn-2025/
“A Nutcracker’s Dream” at the Theocharakis Foundation (@B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music) brings Ernst Hoffmann’s fairy tale to life with Tchaikovsky’s music until 22 December. A wonderful, interactive performance with theatre, movement and painting, for children aged 3.5 to 7 and the whole family. A lovely festive experience that combines music and play.
A Nutcracker’s Dream | For families with children aged 3.5 and over
The holidays at Hellenic Cosmos (@Hellenic Cosmos) are filled with play, creativity and flavours, with sweet and fun experiences for the whole family. Discover “Around the World” in 70 minutes with your children, create chocolate treats, and learn about favourite Christmas songs. Make melomakarona, help the elves prepare gifts, and enjoy a magical celebration with games and crafts.
https://www.hellenic-cosmos.gr/xmas
The now-classic show “The Christmas Star” returns, renewed, to the Planetarium of the Eugenides Foundation (@Eugenides Foundation), with impressive digital graphics, cinematic footage and upgraded sound. Starting from the manger in Bethlehem and reaching the depths of the universe, it invites us to relive the birth of Christ through modern scientific and historical approaches, and to discover the mysteries behind the heavenly light that guided the Magi and has moved people for 2,000 years.
https://www.eef.edu.gr/el/programme/to-astro-ton-hristougennon/
Photo source: Museum of Cycladic Art