Archaeological National museum of Athens

|- |colspan=2 align=" center" bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | local Name ||Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Country ||Greece |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | City || Athens |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Building ||National museum archéologique
(1866 - 1889) |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Supervision ||Greek minister of the culture |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Collections || Greek Antiquities |- |bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Created in || 1888 (transformation of the central public museum founded into 1835) |- |bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Visitors/year || |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Address ||44, rue Patission
10682 Athens |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Internet || Greek minister of the culture |} The archaeological national museum of Athens is the most important archaeological museum of Greece; it has one of the vastest collections of Greek Art in the world.

History

Begun in 1866, the building was completed in 1889 on financings of the Greek State, archaeological Company and patrons. The initial plans were drawn by the architect Ludwig Lange then modified by Panages Kalkos, Harmodios Vlachos and Ernst Ziller. The building is supplemented at the beginning of the 20th century by a new wing and in 1939 by a building of two stages. During the Second world war, most of the collections was moved or buried to avoid plunderings.

The museum was closed for restoration, in preparation of the Olympic Games of summer of 2004. It is again open.

Collections

Among the most known objects appear:

Mycenian art:

the gold funeral mask, improperly called “mask of Agamemnon”,
gold cuts of the tholos of Vapheio,
of the shelves registered in Linear B,
the gold seal of the treasure of Tirynthe;

sculpture:

the Kouros of the Cape Sounion, colossal votive statue belonging to the temple of Poséidon,
a Roman copy of the Diadumène of Polyclète;

ceramic: panathénaïques amphoras;
bronzes:

the “jockey” of the Artémision,
Poséidon (or Zeus) of Artémision,
the “young man of Anticythère”,
the Machine of Anticythère, describing the movement of the stars;

Egyptian art:

sitted statue of the scribe royal Rahotep,
a statuette of Hapi.

See too

External bond

Presentation of the museum on the site of the Greek minister of the culture

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