Benaki Museum

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Benaki Museum is the oldest private museum is a monument of Greece and Greek culture and art. Neoclassical building located at street intersection Vasilissis Koubari Sofias and was built between 1867-1868 by Ioannis Peroglou merchant. Villa Charokopos, as was known, was sold in 1910 that changed his Emmanouil Benakis house according to his needs and the family. Changes in assumed an increased entry and a luxurious interior. Between 1929 and 1931, the house was again changed, adding a wing is in the west.

Already functioning as a museum and proved to be too small for its collections, the building was again changed and is adding another wing between 1988 and 1997. The last wing was added to a library, temporary exhibitions and a cafe.

Benaki Museum's collections of original works included ancient, Byzantine and post-Byzantine and Islamic art and folk music after 1974 were supplemented with historical and photographic archives, archives architectural neo-Greek and Greek works of art department for children. Benaki Museum and the collection also has modern Greece that includes exhibits of great historical Greek culture and independence.

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