National Historical Museum?

Here's what Wikipedia says. Here's the museum's own website. I hadn't heard of it, looks interesting and a very central location.

It’s an interesting building which was the old Parliament House. It’s close to Syntagma and so it’s easy to get to. The content though is fairly specialised: a lot of relics, books and paintings of significant leaders in the Greek Revolution. When I was last there - pre Covid - the top floor was entirely taken up with a brilliant exhibition of reconstructions of significant events using Lego pieces! This was a temporary exhibit though and I assume it is now gone.

My memory is that entrance was free so it is worth popping in, if you are nearby, to see the building and have a quick look to see if anything catches your eye.

If you’re looking for a museum off the beaten track though I would go to the nearby Numismatic Museum on Panepistimiou. Again an interesting building - it was the home of Schliemann - and a specialised subject but I found it’s history of the spread of coins really interesting. There’s always, for me at least, a buzz looking at things which you know people used thousands of years ago.

https://museu.ms/museum/details/877/numismatic-museum-of-athens

Alan

My husband and I were on the March7th RS tour. We arrived in Athens a few days early and visited the Numismatic Museum (we are coin collectors), and the Cycladic Museum (Great!). We climbed Mt. Lycabettus for the view, and visited the Byzantine Museum. We also visited the Kerameikos cemetery and the Agoras. Following the tour we visited the Benaki Museum.
We drove past the National Historical Museum when visiting the National Archeological Museum. If you are visiting Greece soon it might be worth a visit as Greece's bicentennial celebration is wrapping up and many of the museums have special exhibits relating to the revolution. We were particularly impressed with Hydra's Archive museum.

I was there. It's in the old parliament building, the galleries are around the main hall where the MPs met. It's mostly modern Greek history, struggles against the Ottomans and finally achieving independence, then the world wars. There's also a collection of costumes, lots of beautiful embroidery.

Haven't been to Natl Historical Museum, but have visited Museums in Crete & Nafplio with historical paintings of Greek history and, notably, the long struggle for freedom from Turkish oppression (one forgets that this was not "one and done" in the 1820s ... Crete had to resist and persist for 90 more years to achieve union with a Free Greece). This art is a revelation to nonGreeks about how many centuries Greece was occupied and subjected to another culture .... a conquered country, for survival, takes on the outer trappings of its rulers. In military paintings, it's not just the Turks who wear fez hats and brandish scimitars -- the heroic Greek freedom fighters do too! In battle scenes, both sides look exactly alike ... without captions, you identify the Greeks by looking for who's winning.