Newsletter November 2022
Athens. The City is the Museum.
Welcome to Athens, where the city is the museum. A museum with countless collections of people, objects, tastes, sounds, and feelings of everyday life. A museum with an abundant diversity of exhibits (and a total lack of display cases), where everything is accessible to the public and eager to be engaged with. A museum that never closes, that constantly shifts, where your favourite exhibitions can be on display for a fleeting moment, or a millennia. A museum that is the city itself.
To help you discover the riches of Athens, we teamed up with Google Hellas and created a series of curated audio tours that take you through our streets, introduce you to our people and talk about our city's history, present and future. Click on the button below to start exploring our collection.
Athens. The City is the Museum.
Thomas Gravanis
Currently on Exhibit: The Athenian Kafenion
There's no other place more symbolic of how Athenians socialise, than the traditional kafenion. Step into these neighbourhood haunts as a visitor for a coffee, or a ouzo and a meze, and come out as a friend.
Grab a chair
Currently on Exhibit: Food Shopping in Athens
Why opt for supermarkets in Athens, when local stall owners and merchants will treat you like a VIP and serve you hand-picked, high quality produce?
Stock up
Thomas Gravanis
Currently on Exhibit: A Local's Guide to Mets
Discover the cheerful and stylish neighbourhood that every Athenian wants to call home, and do so in the best possible company: our very own photographer Thomas Gravanis.
Let's Mets!
Thomas Gravanis
Currently on Exhibit: Athens' Vibrant Gallery Circuit
Be it in downtown clusters or suburban salons, you're never too far from a red-hot gallery in Athens. Track down the city's biggest players with our guide.
On art affairs
Now Showing
NEON: Dream On | Until 27 November
Greek art foundation NEON delivers another impressive contemporary art exhibition at one of the city's newest cultural landmarks.
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Tribute to Iannis Xenakis | Until 9 December
How does one apply architecture and mathematics into music? If there's a method to this madness, it belongs to Iannis Xenakis.
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Don Quixote | 26 November - 31 December
Set to Ludwig Minkus's score, the three-act classical ballet is being staged at the Greek National Opera by a stellar team.
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Seeing the Invisible at the National Garden | Until September 2023
The most ambitious and expansive exhibition to date of contemporary artworks created with AR technology lands in Athens' former Royal Garden. Next time you're in town make sure to check into the National Garden and hunt down the augmented reality works of Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui and more.
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St. Paul's Sessions 5 | Until May 2023
The innovative concert series returns at the two brand new state-of-the-art venues of the Athens Conservatory.
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Welcome to Athens, where the city is the museum.
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