Athens City Museum

Athens City Museum


Established	1973
Location	5-7 Paparigopoulou Str., Athens, Greece
Type	City museum
Public transit access	Athens Metro stations: Panepistimio

Athens City Museum (Vouros-Eutaxias Foundation) is an art museum and former royal residence in Athens, Greece. It houses a collection of Athens-related items collected by art collector Lambros Eutaxias [Wikidata] (1905-1996).^[1] The collection includes antiquities, Byzantine art, sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs and metal, glass and textile works. It also includes furniture arranged in typical living rooms of the Athenian aristocracy of the 19th century.

This building was the first royal palace of Greece under the reign of King Otto of Greece.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b John Van der Kiste, Kings of the Hellenes: The Greek Kings 1863–1974 (Sutton Publishing, 1994).

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Education/sports/ Special Interests	Athens University Museum Hellenic Children's Museum Hellenic Cosmos Hellenic Maritime Museum Mineralogy and Petrology Museum Museum of Anthropology of University of Athens Museum of Criminology Numismatic Museum of Athens Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece Spathario Museum Tactual Museum of Athens Theatrical Museum of Greece Zoological Museum of the University of Athens
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