Benaki Museum of Greek Culture Entrance Ticket
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Benaki Museum of Greek Culture Entrance Ticket

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Visit: Benaki Museum, 1 Koumbari Street, Athens 106 74 Greece

The collection of Prehistoric, Ancient Greek and Roman antiquities includes several exhibits from the dawn of Prehistory to the end of the Roman era such as gold jewels, collection of vases and sculptures, unique coins, outstanding examples of miniature work in faience and ivory, examples of glasswork, marble portraits and funerary steles. The exceptionally rich Byzantine collection links the ancient Greek world to that of modern Greece and is divided into two groups. The first group includes unique examples of bronze and silver household and ecclesiastical vessels, miniature sculptures and enamels, ceramics, manuscripts etc. The second group includes Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons, a number of household vessels from the early Byzantine period, a collection of Byzantine jewellery as well as a large group of crosses, reliquaries, amulets and miniature steatite icons. The collection of historical heirlooms recreates the history of modern Greece from the end of the 18th century onwards. Many of the objects are connected with the Philhellenic movement and others date to the reigns of King Otho and King George. It includes also authentic swords and other weapons which belonged to the heroes of 1821, personal belongings such as Ioannis Kapodistrias’s seal and Lord Byron's pistols, manuscripts written by the poets Dionysios Solomos, Constantine Cavafy, Kostis Palamas, and Yannis Ritsos, and the Nobel prize certificates and gold medals won by the poets George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis.


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Included
  • Free WiFi internet access
  • Benaki Museum entrance ticket
  • Entry/Admission - Benaki Museum
  • Guaranteed to skip the lines
Not included
  • Food and drinks
  • Hotel pick up and drop off
Additional
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Wheelchair access. For the Main Exhibition Building, visitors on wheelchair or with baby strollers can use the entrance on Vas. Sofias avenue.
  • To avoid delays, you are asked to avoid carrying large bags and luggage into the museum.
  • The museum provides free WiFi internet access throughout the buliding.
  • Your Viator voucher is only valid and redeemable for the selected date of booking
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
Features
Cultural
100%
Original
45%
Tourism
40%
Reviews
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Fawnya D
4 | 2019-07-03

The museum was amazing!! There is a lot to see, so give yourself plenty of time. The staff working there was not helpful and very rude.

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