Museums

There are 357 items in Museums:

Assen, Drents Museum

The beautiful museum of the Dutch province of Drente has an excellent archaeological department with important finds from the Stone and Bronze Age. There are also "bog people" from the Roman period and very early Frankish finds from Wijster.

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Athens Airport, Mini Museum

Several years ago, a new airport was opened near Athens, the International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos, named after Greece’s leading statesman in the first half of the twentieth century. It has a small museum, which is quite interesting, as it documents…

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Athens, Acropolis Museum

I had been looking forward to our visit to the Acropolis Museum, because I had read several very favorable reviews. It is indeed splendid. One of the reasons for building it is that Greece wants the Elgin Marbles back, and…

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Athens, Byzantine and Christian Museum

Some museums appeal to you because they are interesting, like Delphi. With some exceptions, its sculpture is not extremely remarkable, but the museum tells a good and important story about ancient religion. Something similar can be said about the museum…

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Athens, Numismatic Museum

Dimitris Chatzis’ To diplo biblio (“the double book”) is one of my favorite novels, and because I recently met a German-born Greek who hadn’t heard of this story about Greeks in Greece and Germany, I decided to buy the modern…

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