On the north slope of the Acropolis Museum is Kanellopoulos. Here is a beautiful collection of antique and Byzantine art.

The museum was founded in 1976 on the basis of a private collection of Paul and Alexandra Kanellopoulos, which they donated to the Greek State. The museum is housed in the former mansion of the family Mahalea, built in 1864. The Greek government bought the building specifically to house the collection.

The museum presents a variety of vases, figurines, jewelry, weapons, coins, inscriptions, sculptures, statues, paintings, wood, and other interesting archaeological finds. The museum has two rare amphorae potter Nikosfena with Dionysian scenes and beautifully preserved black hydria depicting a woman near a fountain at home. Among the notable exhibits, you can also select the Cycladic figurines and tanagreasy, small terracotta figurines 4-3 century BC from Tanagra. A special place in the exposition belongs marble head of Alexander the Great (2nd century BC) and the Fayum portraits. The variety of gold and silver jewelry of different periods of history worthy of special attention.

The museum presents 270 Byzantine icons. And icon "Beheading of St. Paraskeva" has an original signature of the famous icon painter Mikhail Damascene (representative of the Cretan icon painting school).

The artifacts collected in the museum date back to the 3000-1200 biennium. BC. until the 18th and 19th centuries AD. The collection gives an excellent idea of ​​the Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, Roman and other civilizations. Today, the museum has about 6,000 exhibits. The exposition is located in chronological order and on separate topics that allows us to trace the entire path of development and diversity of the art of the Greek masters.