The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the largest museum in Greece and it’s by farthest the top museum in the world regarding the housing of greek antiquities and artifacts of major importance for the Greek cultural past.
It was founded in 1829, by Ioannis Kapodistrias and in 1865 Eleni Tositsa made a land donation on which the museum was built. The contruction work was done by the end of 1880.
During the second world war all the artifacts and display objects were buried in order to have them protected, and in 1999 the building was highly damaged due to the earthquaqe.
In 2004 the museum was reopened for public, after refurbishment and rearranging.
The museum hosts an impressive number of objects on display, which are organized in collections, acording to their origins, age, location.
There is the prehistoric collections which contains neolithic and bronze period objects, amongst which there are found some from the Troy site.
Then, there’s the cycladic collection where you’ll be amazed by items emerged from the remains of the Mycenaean civilization .
If you wander around the museum’s display rooms you’ll also discover other collections which include items from the Roman period, from Thera ( Santorini ), sculptures, pottery, bronze, arts and ornaments and many other articles.
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