Syntagma (Line 2 & 3)

The National Garden is a peaceful and beautiful park in the centre of Athens, where visitors can enjoy their walk and spend hours of relaxation. The Garden encloses luxuriant vegetation, plenty of flowers, some ancient ruins, two duck ponds and a small zoo. In addition, there is a children’s playground and a café as well.

Over 1200 Greek popular musical instruments depict the history and evolution of Greek music from the 18th century to today. The musicologist Fivos Anoyanakis opened the museum in 1991 after 50 years of research. Audio capabilities allow the visitor to listen to the music depicted in showcases including Dionysian rhythms of the zoura and melodies of the mandolin.

A rich collection of Greek folk art dating from 1650 until today including works of embroidery, weaving, costumes, masquerades, silver, metals, pottery, wood carvings and stone carvings. The museum’s annexes include: the Tzidaraki Mosque (the museum’s original location), where the "V. Kyriazopoulos Collection of Folk Pottery" is now housed and the building at Kyrrestou 8, known as the "Baths of Athena." The newest building at Panos 22, in Plaka, features historic items from various Greek trade professions of the 19th and 20th century.

The history of the postal service philately. Collection includes postboxes, safes, postal stamp machines, bags and horns used by the postmen and other articles of the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone Services. Also exhibited are a wide range of items related to stamps and the process of their printing. The Museum has a special date stamping machine with the representation of the head of Hermes.

The Numismatic Museum of Athens, with a history going back to 1829, is one of the few of its kind in the world and the only such museum in the Balkans. It provides continuous educational support for Hellenism in terms of numismatics, history and art history. The strength of the collection lies in approximately 6,000 coins covering the ancient Greek world, the Roman and Byzantine periods, western Mediaeval times and modern times. The building that houses the museum, Iliou Melathron, is to be appreciated for its design by architect Ernest Ziller, who is credited with designing over 500 buildings in Greece.

The permanent collection is constituted by 3000 works of painting and sculpture by Greek and other European artists on the subject of the human form. Other rotating exhibits of international caliber have made this museum one of the city's finest.

This museum dedicated to children is housed in an old mansion. Its aim is to enhance learning through play and direct contact with objects. The hands-on displays encourage children to explore, experiment, think and create. Among these displays is an exhibit named "Hello Pythagoras", which engages children in logic and geometry games as well as others that deal with cooking, recycling, money, art and the family. Of course, there are lots of toys and games as well as computers here. A series of activities such as theatrical games, cooking courses and Christmas preparations are organized every weekend. The museum is suitable for children up to 12 years old.

Located inside the beautiful Zappeion Gardens, behind the Parliament, this museum documents the history of its surroundings, the former palatial home of King Otto and Queen Amalia who reigned in the mid-1800s. A total of 550 plant species as well as old archived photographs of the Gardens from the time they were established are here.

 This group of collections comprises many distinct categories totaling more than 30.000 items illustrating the character of the Greek world through a spectacular historical panorama: from antiquity and the age of Roman domination to the medieval Byzantine period; from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the centuries of Frankish and Ottoman occupation; to the outbreak of the struggle for independence in 1821; from the formation of the modern state of Greece in 1830, up to 1922, the year in which the Asia Minor disaster took place.

More than 7,000 objects depicting 2,300 years of Jewish life in Greece is depicted in thematic exhibits here. They include the history of the Greek- speaking Romaniote Jews (whose presence in Greece goes back to the 3rd century B.C.), the Holocaust and the Jewish participation in the Greek War of Independence.

The B & M Theocharakis Foundation is primarily concerned with music and the fine arts in Greece and internationally, with a focus on the emergence of the Modern and its continued development over the 20th and into the 21st century. The Foundation aims to encourage the public to enter into a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary dialogue with music and the visual arts, to promote the work of Greek artists abroad, to employ every means at its disposal to disseminate the content of its activities, and to develop networks facilitating collaboration and exchange.