The Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens is one of the most important museums of Byzantine Art in the world.

It has a valuable collection of Byzantine art from Greece and Asia Minor. It is housed in a palace built by Kleanthes in 1840, on a site which was then in open country, for the eccentric Duchesse de Plaisance (Plakentias), wife of Charles-François Lebrun, whom Napoleon made Duc de Plaisance (Piacenza).

In the courtyard visitors may admire architectural fragments from early Christian basilicas and Byzantine churches (5h-15th centuries) and a reproduction of a fountain depicted in a mosaic at the monastery of Dafní.

The museum was founded in 1914 and has more than 25,000 exhibits with rare collections of pictures, scriptures, frescoes, pottery, fabrics, manuscripts and copies of artifacts from the 3rd century AD to the late medieval era.

OPENING HOURS: Tuesday - Sunday: 8:00 - 19:30 

CLOSED: Sundays (please call the museum  for opening hours in Greek Holidays)

METRO STATION: Evagelismos