Μουσείο της Πόλεως των Αθηνών - Ίδρυμα Βούρου-Ευταξία


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Κωνσταντίνου Παπαρρηγοπούλου 5, Athina 105 61, Greece

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The Museum of the City of Athens is housed in two of the oldest buildings of the capital. The collections include paintings, prints, sculptures, furniture and important documents of modern Greek history. Among these the table of Jaques Carrey (1684) stand out, o largest ever for Athens (3 x 5m) and has panoramic city and the Acropolis before the destruction of the Morsini (1687) by and the Carnival of Athens Nikolaos Gizis. One of the premises of the museum, the on Paparrigopoulou pathway 7 inhabited from 1836 to 1843 by Otto and Amalia, the first kings of Greece. For this reason, one floor is dedicated to the memory of the royal couple. The building at Paparrigopoulou road 5, which is connected by bridge closed with the previous one, was built by architect Gerasimos Metaxas in 1859. It is a unique example of urban noble residence of the 19th century Athens, with rooms with period furniture and space periodic reports. All these create a single image for the city of Athens, its inhabitants and their habits in the 19th century and generally illuminate a time in the modern history of Greece, for which little evidence is now available.


The museum of the City of Athens, Vouros-Eutaxias is housed in two of the city's oldest buildings. Its collections include paintings, engravings, statutes, period furniture and other significant evidence of Greece's modern history. Among the works by travelers to Athens between 17th-19th centuries, the painting which singles out is the one by Jaques Carrey (1684), the largest picturing Athens (3 x 5m) and presents a panoramic view of the capital and he Acropolis prior to its destruction by Morosini (1687). The first of the two buildings has been inhabited by Otto and Amalia, first royal couple of Greece and a number of their furniture and objects are displayed in the museum. The second building is considered a unique model of bourgeois architecture of the 19th century Athens, which houses antique furniture and the Museum's Gallery. In the Gallery, contemporary artists exhibit their work periodically, using Athens as their main theme.



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