Listed 5 sub titles with search on: Culture & Art Centres for wider area of: "ATHENS, CENTRAL DISTRICT Prefectural district ATTIKI" .
SEPOLIA (City quarter) ATHENS
Tel: +30 210 5126295
Fax: +30 210 5241323
The Museum was founded in 1979 and belongs to the Greek Railways Organization.
Its aim is to preserve samples of the technological development of the means of
transportation in Greece. Among the Museum's exhibits are included:
• Steam lecomotives dating from 1884
• Steam locomotives of mine-trains
• Wagons of old trains, royal riages and the smoking car of the train of the
sultan Abdul Aziz
• Athenian tramways of the past decades
• Hand-and-foot operated draeseners
• Models and photographic material
• Instruments, printing implements, tickets, uniforms and mechanics' tools
of the 19th century.
VATHIS (Square) ATHENS
Tel: +30 210 5241492, 5242140
Fax: +30 210 5246943
The Cartoon Museum has been in operation since 1994. It is administered by the Municipality of Athens in collaboration with a group of Greek cartoonists.
The main Museum collection comprises the Permanent Exhibition of Cartoons,
namely carricatures, comic strips and other kinds of sketches by Greek and foreign cartoonists. There is also a library and archives.
The Cartoon Museum is housed in the neoclassical Villa Treiber near the New Town Hall.
Treiber was a German philhellene who came to Greece during the Greek War of Independence in 1821
and remained in the country as a chief medical officer of the Greek Army.
Some of the most important exhibits of the museum are:
Comic strips by K. Grammatopoulos, "Proteus and Andromeda", on a script by B. Rotas,
from the series "Illustrated Classics" published by Atlantis.
Caricatures of cartoonists of the early years of the 20th century, from the satyrical review "Satanas".
Cover of the periodical "Phanos" by Phokion Dimitriades.
ZOGRAFOS (Suburb of Athens) ATTIKI
Tel: +30 210 7777601, 7487657
Fax: +30 210 7487657
The Museum was founded in 1977 and was housed in the atelier of the famous Greek painter George Gounaropoulos (1890-1977), in the Zografou area of Athens.
In 1990 the Museum was expanded by the addition of a new building, which serves as Art and Culture Center, hosting art exhibitions, lectures and cultural events.
In the old atelier of the painter (which has been listed by the Greek State as conservation-worthy property) are exhibited his works,
including oil paintings, drawings done in crayon and fusain, studies and also personal items.
Some of the most important exhibits of the museum are:
G. Gounaropoulos, "Self-portrait", 1965, Fusain, 76 x 56 cm.
G. Gounaropoulos, "Trees and female figure", 1930, Oil, 53 x 63 cm.
Tel: +30 210 7775950
The Museum was inaugurated on May 1990 and constitutes a functional museum of
modern art, able to house important exhibitions. The building, erected in 1926,
was the holiday home of the great actress of the Greek Theatre, Marika Kotopouli.
During the German occupation, the house was requisitioned by the Germans. Later
it housed the Police Station of the area. Finally, with the support of the Association
of Greek Actors, the Municipality, undertook to restore the house, which was classified
as a listed building, and to show off its distinctive architecture and its beautiful
interiors, where cultural activities of a high calibre are held today. This Museum
does not exhibit objects related to Kotopouli. The building itself is of value
as a museum; for the time being it welcomes temporary exhibitions, while it offers
a permanent home to the artistic collection of Constantinos Ioannides.
Some of the most important exhibits of the museum are:
D. Biskinis, "The expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Paradise", 1932.
Yiannis Gaitis, "Roller-skater", 1982.
Tel: +30 210 7274086
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