Museum of Cycladic Art

The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, which opened in 1986, houses a 5000-year-old artwork collection from the Cyclades Islands. This Greek Museum is particularly well-known for housing many and timeless works of art from Cyprus and Ancient Greece. Over 3000 items of art from Cyprus, Ancient Greece, and the Cyclades are housed at the museum. The displays trace the development of numerous civilizations in the Aegean Sea islands and the Mediterranean region from the fourth century BC to the sixth century AD.

The museum's first floor houses about 350 sculptures, utensils, and figures made of stone, marble, bronze, clay, and marble. These items date from the Early Bronze Age and are indicative of Cycladic civilization. The second and fourth floors house almost 4000 artifacts dating from 2000 BC to the fourth century AD. The exhibits, which include jewelry, vases, glass-made artifacts, and swords, are all from the Central Aegean and reflect the existence of Classical civilization on the islands.

The third level is entirely dedicated to relics (about 500 artifacts made of stone, silver, gold, bronze, marble, and clay) discovered in Cyprus between the Chalcolithic and Modern eras. The fourth level houses around 142 objects from the Antiquity period. Each item is labeled with an explanation to allow visitors to go deeper into the subject and become acquainted with how a day in the life of an Ancient Greek looks.

Location: 4, Neophytou Douka str., Athens 106 74

Website: cycladic.gr