Athens Trip Overview
Visit Athen’s top and world famous museums with this unique Athens Museum Pass and explore the city with our get on get off bus. Gain free entry to 16 of Athens’ best museums, galleries and shows and skip the long lines. Athens is rich with history and culture, explore the Acropolis and Parthenon and the various museums before enjoying traditional dancing and theatre. The Athens museum pass is a great way to immerse yourself into the Greek culture. Choose what you want to see, do over 3 days and save up to 45%!
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Duration: 3 days
Starts: Athens, Greece
Trip Category: Sightseeing Tickets & Passes >> Museum Tickets & Passes
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What to Expect When Visiting Athens, Attica, Greece
Visit Athen’s top and world famous museums with this unique Athens Museum Pass and explore the city with our get on get off bus. Gain free entry to 16 of Athens’ best museums, galleries and shows and skip the long lines. Athens is rich with history and culture, explore the Acropolis and Parthenon and the various museums before enjoying traditional dancing and theatre. The Athens museum pass is a great way to immerse yourself into the Greek culture. Choose what you want to see, do over 3 days and save up to 45%!
Visit: Acropolis, Via Dionysiou Areopagitou Str., Athens 105 58 Greece
The Acropolis is probably the most famous and most visited monument in the world from the antiquity. It is the symbol of Athens and its most famous landmark. Every year millions of visitors from all over the world come to admire this symbol of the Ancient Greek civilisation. Marvel at the majestic Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Areopagus and the Theater of Dionysus as well.
Duration: 3 hours
Visit: Acropolis Museum, Dionysiou Areopagitou 15, Athens 117 42 Greece
It is one of the most important museums in Athens, designed by architects B. Tschumi and M. Fotiadi. It uses natural light efficiently so that its 4,000 exhibits would show off. It houses priceless findings from the Acropolis monuments that represent its history and function as the most important religious centre of ancient Athens. Some of the most significant exhibits are: The Moschoforos, Alexander the Great, The daughter of Antenoros, The Archaic Kores, Sculptures decorating the Parthenon, The Caryatids.
Duration: 3 hours
Visit: Panathenaic Stadium, Vassileos Konstantinou Avenue opposite the statue of Myron Discobolus, Athens 116 35 Greece
The Panathinaikon Stadium, also known as the Kallimarmaro is the athletic stadium in Athens that hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. The Panathinaikon Stadium is the only major stadium in the world built entirely of white marble and one of the oldest stadiums in the world.
Duration: 2 hours
Visit: War Museum, Vasilisis Sofias Avenue & Rizari 2 The entrance is located at Rizari 2., Athens 106 75 Greece
In the museum’s exhibition grounds you can chronologically navigate through the four levels of the building, while a large collection of weapon systems can also be discovered in the open-air areas around the premises. A unique opportunity to discover the secrets of Athen’s past at the War Museum of Athens.
Duration: 2 hours
Visit: Museum of Cycladic Art, 4 Neofytou Douka str., Athens 106 74 Greece
The Museum of Cycladic Art is dedicated to the study and promotion of ancient cultures of the Aegean, with special emphasis on Cycladic Art of the 3rd millennium BC.
Duration: 2 hours
Visit: Frissiras Museum, 3 Monis Asteriou Plaka, Athens 105 58 Greece
Frissiras Museum opened its doors to the public in December 2000 and is the only Museum for Contemporary European Painting in Greece. The Museum was founded by Vlassis Frissiras, and it is currently housing over 4000 pieces of art. Its large collection constitutes the core of its temporary exhibitions that change every few months.
Duration: 2 hours
Visit: Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, Pindarou 6, Athens 10671 Greece
In a unique historic building at the very heart of Athens in Kolonaki district you can visit this special Museum dedicated to the Ancient Greek Technology. The present exhibition of ancient Greek technology includes approximately 300 operating models of ancient Greek inventions.
Duration: 2 hours
Visit: Hellenic Motor Museum, 33 – 35 Ioulianou, Athens 104 33 Greece
Hellenic Motor Museum occupies 5.000 sqm. in a unique building in terms of architecture and design. Its exhibitions are dedicated to the evolution of the car and display more than 110 cars from the 19th and the 20th century.
Duration: 2 hours
Visit: Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Kallisperi12 Adjacent to the Acropolis Museum, Athens 117 42 Greece
The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum was founded in 1993 as the first museum for jewelry and decorative arts in Greece with an emphasis on traditional crafts and in particular the art of fine and studio jewelry.
Duration: 1 hour
Visit: Benaki Museum, 1 Koumbari Street, Athens 106 74 Greece
It is one of the most important museums in Athens that you should definitely visit. The group of collections comprises many distinct categories totalling more than 40,000 items, illustrating the character of the Greek world through a spectacular historical panorama.
Duration: 2 hours
Visit: Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, 22 Agion Asomaton 12 Dipilou St., Athens 10553 Greece
In the historical centre of Athens, in a complex of neo-classical buildings, is located the Benaki Museum which houses a unique exhibition of Islamic art collections and examples of all its local variations from as far as India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, the Middle East, Arabia, Egypt, North Africa, Sicily and Spain. The Benaki Museum of Islamic art ranks among the most important in the world.
Duration: 2 hours
Visit: Pinakothiki Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, 3 Kriezotou Street, Athens Greece
Browse the permanent collection of the artist’s creative work at the N. Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery. See the portrait of the artist. The house on Kriezotou str was the center of vivid interest amongst architectural and art circles even in its’ time, and was displayed in Greek and foreign architectural magazines. The specially made attic of the 6th floor housed his workshop and library, while the 5th floor was used as a residence. This is where he lived and created for 40 years, until his death, in September 1994. Those rooms are still preserved as he had organized them.
Duration: 1 hour
Visit: Benaki Toy Museum, Leoforos Poseidonos 14 Tritonos 1, Paleo Faliro 175 61 Greece
Feel like child again visiting Benaki toy museum in Athens and admire a variety of toys, books, ephemera, clothing and other items associated with childhood from Europe, Africa, Asia and the America.
Duration: 1 hour
Visit: Dora Stratou Greek Dances Theatre, 33 Arakinthou Filopappou Hill, Plaka, Athens 117 41 Greece
Book your seat for this spectacular performance and live a truly unforgettable experience. The national Greek Dances Theatre ‘Dora Stratou’ is a living museum since 1953 and unique in its kind in the world. Admire all these authentic costumes and the traditional dances and let the music show you the tradition of Greece through time.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Visit: Museum Herakleidon, 16, Herakleidon str., Thisseio, Athens 118 51 Greece
The Museum Herakleidon was founded in 2004 by Mr. and Mrs. Firos and extends to two buildings in the historic district of Thissio. Today the Museum Herakleidon has evolved to an interactive center of science popularization and to a technological museum that focuses on antiquity, with emphasis on the achievements of the ancient Greeks.
Duration: 2 hours
Visit: Museum of Illusions Athens, Ermou 119 Entrance from Astiggos 12, Athens 10555 Greece
The Museum of Illusions in Athens is unique in his kind and introduce you to the fascinating world of illusions which will trick your confidence in senses, but amaze you by doing it.
Duration: 2 hours
