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Athens Museums and Galleries Walk

Athens Museums and Galleries Walk

Athens · Greece

14 stops
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow this museum-focused walk through a wide range of collections, from art and military history to Byzantine, Cycladic, archaeological, historical, and contemporary subjects. You will encounter museums in different kinds of settings, including the Μέγαρο Σταθάτου and the university history building. The route is worth taking for the variety of perspectives it brings together, with each stop offering a distinct way to explore culture and history.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum

    National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum

    National Gallery, Alexandros Soutsos Museum, in Athens, Greece.

  2. War Museum

    War Museum

    A modern museum tracing Greek military history from the Bronze Age to the present

  3. Byzantine and Christian Museum

    Byzantine and Christian Museum

    A former Duchess’s villa became the home of Greece’s great museum of Byzantine and Christian heritage.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Stathatos Mansion

    Stathatos Mansion

    A Stathatos family home became a museum, framed by Athens’s most inventive neoclassical entrance.

  6. Museum of Cycladic Art

    Museum of Cycladic Art

    A private collection became Athens’s home for Cycladic, Greek, Cypriot and eastern Mediterranean art.

  7. Benaki Museum

    Benaki Museum

    A family home transformed into a museum tracing Greek culture across centuries and continents.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.