Athens City Museum

The Athens City Museum is housed in two of the most historic buildings of the capital. Its mission is to research, preserve and present the history of our great city and its people from the Francocracy (the period following the Fourth Crusade of 1204) up to today. Athens City Museums collections include paintings, engravings, sculptures, furniture and important pieces of modern Greek history. Works such as Jaques Carreys (1684) painting, the largest ever made for Athens, and the Carnival in Athens by painter Nicolaos Gizis are just some of the important exhibits found in the Museums collections. The building on 7, Paparigopoulou Street, was inhabited from 1836 to 1843 by the first King of Greece, Otto, and his wife Queen Amalia. For this reason, the 1st floor of the building has been preserved and shaped specifically to present the royal residence. The adjacent building on 5, Paparigopoulou Street, connected with the old royal residency by a closed bridge, was built by the architec...