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Benaki Museum

The Benaki Museum, established and endowed in 1930 by Antonis Benakis in memory of his father Emmanuel Benakis, is housed in the Benakis family mansion in , .
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  • Opening hours:
    Tuesday: closed
    Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday: 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
    Thursday: 10:00 AM—midnight
    Sunday: 10:00 AM—4:00 PM
  • Email: benaki@benaki.gr
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Kolonaki, Athens, Greece
  • Also known as: “Benaki Museum in Kolonaki”, “Benaki Museum Kolonaki”, “Benaki Museum of Greek Culture”, “Musee Benaki”, and “Museum of Greek culture”
  • Address: Κουμπάρη 1, Αθήνα, 10674

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Museum of Cycladic Art and Lyceum.

Museum
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The Nikolaos P. Goulandris Foundation - is a museum in that houses a notable collection of artifacts of Cycladic art. The museum was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nikolaos and Dolly Goulandris. is situated 180 metres east of Benaki Museum.

Archaeological site
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The (, Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, romanized: Lykeion /lý.keː.on/ was a temple in dedicated to Apollo Lyceus. It was best known for the Peripatetic school of philosophy founded there by Aristotle in 334 BC. is situated 350 metres southeast of Benaki Museum.

Photo: Elena Tatiana Chis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a former temple on the , Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of classical Greek art, and the is considered an enduring symbol of ancient Greece, Western civilization, and democracy. is situated 1¼ km southwest of Benaki Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rigillis and Athens.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

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is the capital city of with a metropolitan population of 3.15 million inhabitants. It was a major cultural, political and religious centre of Classical Greece, a place that deeply influenced the course of Western civilization.

Neighborhood
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, literally "Academy", is a neighborhood in central , . Located directly north and slight west of , it is bounded by Akadimias Street, Panepistimiou Street, Solonos Street and Stadiou Street.

Benaki Museum

Latitude
37.97602° or 37° 58′ 34″ north
Longitude
23.74034° or 23° 44′ 25″ east
Elevation
121 metres (397 feet)
Operator
Μουσείο Μπενάκη
Open location code
8G95XPGR+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23183030
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
11808626
Wiki­data ID
Q816669
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Benaki Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف بيناكي”
  • Armenian: “Բենակի թանգարան”
  • Bengali: “বেনাকি জাদুঘর”
  • Catalan: “Museu Benaki”
  • Chinese: “贝纳基博物馆”
  • Dutch: “Benaki Museum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف بيناكى”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo Benaki”
  • Finnish: “Benaki-museo”
  • French: “Benaki Museum”
  • French: “Musée Benaki”
  • French: “musée Benáki”
  • Galician: “Museo Benaki”
  • Georgian: “ბენაკის მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Benaki-Museum”
  • Greek: “Ίδρυμα Μπενάκη”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Μπενάκη”
  • Italian: “museo Benaki”
  • Italian: “Museo Benaki”
  • Japanese: “ベナキ博物館”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Benakimuseet”
  • Norwegian: “Benakimuseet”
  • Persian: “موزه بناکی”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Benaki w Atenach”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Benaki”
  • Russian: “Музей Бенаки”
  • Serbian: “Benaki Museum”
  • Serbian: “Muzej Benaki”
  • Serbian: “Атински музеј Бенаки”
  • Serbian: “Музеј Бенаки (Атина)”
  • Serbian: “Музеј Бенаки Атина”
  • Serbian: “Музеј Бенаки у Атини”
  • Serbian: “Музеј Бенаки”
  • Serbian: “Музеј грчке културе”
  • Slovenian: “Benakijev muzej”
  • Spanish: “Museo Benaki”
  • Turkish: “Benaki Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей Бенакі”
  • Urdu: “بیناکی عجائب گھر”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیناکی عجائب گھر”

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