Founded in 2000 by Vlassis Fryssiras, this museum of contemporary art is housed in two beautiful neoclassical buildings on Monis Asteriou Street in Plaka.

Founded in 1993 with the goal of preserving Hellenic history and tradition, the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre was opened its doors 1998.

The Athens Planetarium at the Eugenides Foundation gives state-of-the-art presentations on a wide range of current astronomy.

The Epigraphical Museum is overseen by the Ministry of Education. It displays over 14,000 ancient Greek inscriptions describing every aspect of private and public life; they form a key basis of historical research.

The Cycladic Art Museum, located near Syntagma Square at 4 Neophytou Douka Street, houses the world’s largest collection of artefacts of Cycladic and Greek art.

To many, the Centre is still known by its original name, the Greek Theatre Museum.

The Byzantine and Christian Museum on Vasilissis Sofias Street is one of the most important Byzantine and post-Byzantine museums in the world, with over 25,000 objects dating from the 2nd century AC to the present.

The Museum of Islamic Art is situated in a Neo-Classical building complex in the Kerameikos neighborhood.

In 2000, the main building re-opened, after years of renovation. The centerpiece of the Benaki Museum, it aims to present the historical and cultural development of Hellenism within its geographical and evolutionary context, from prehistory to the present.