Museum Places to Visit in Santorini & Greece

Historic tomato paste factory museum in Vlychada preserving original processing machinery, archival records, and Santorini’s 20th-century food industry.

Traditional volcanic rock wine cellar offering structured tastings of indigenous Santorini grape varieties including Assyrtiko, Athiri, and Vinsanto.

Meticulously preserved 1888 neoclassical residence in Messaria showcasing authentic period furnishings, painted ceilings, and Santorini’s winemaking wealth.

Fira museum housing archaeological collections from Ancient Thera, including Geometric pottery, Archaic statues, and Hellenistic-Roman inscriptions.

Authentic 1861 rock-cut cave museum in Kontochori displaying period household artifacts, historic winemaking tools, and traditional crafts.

Contemporary art gallery and cultural venue in Megalochori showcasing curated collections of modern Greek paintings, sculpture, and graphic arts.

Interactive digital museum in Megalochori connecting the Atlantis myth with Santorini’s volcanic eruption through 9D cinema and holographic exhibits.

Underground cave wine museum in Vothonas charting Santorini’s viticulture history since 1660, paired with guided tastings of indigenous wines.

Interactive entertainment museum near Monastiraki Square offering optical trick rooms, holograms, infinity tunnels, and brain teasers.

Military history museum in Kolonaki showcasing weapons, breastplates, artillery, and vintage aircraft from ancient times to World War II.

Greece’s premier art institution showcasing post-Byzantine religious art, El Greco canvases, and 19th- and 20th-century Greek modern painting.

Flagship Benaki museum in Kolonaki tracing Greek history and culture from prehistoric antiquities to Ottoman-era folk costumes and El Greco art.

Private cultural foundation in central Athens offering rotating modern art exhibitions, classical music recitals, a bookstore, and an elegant cafe.

Historical museum in the neoclassical Old Parliament House showcasing military uniforms, weapons, and archives from the 1821 Greek Revolution.

Specialized museum housed in Heinrich Schliemann’s neoclassical Iliou Melathron mansion, exhibiting ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine coinage.

Modern art museum in Pangrati displaying private masterworks by Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Degas, Giacometti, and prominent Greek painters.

Contemporary exhibition venue of the Benaki Museum at Pireos 138, hosting major modern art retrospectives, photography, and cultural events.

World-class Athens museum dedicated to the minimalist marble figurines and pottery of the 3rd-millennium BC Cycladic Aegean civilization.

Modern interactive museum in Marousi documenting the Olympic movement from ancient Greece to the modern revival and the 2004 Athens Games.

Intimate Plaka museum in Athens showcasing Greece’s richest collection of traditional folk instruments, regional recordings, and musical craftsmanship.

Distinctive automotive museum in Athens featuring more than 110 vintage, racing, and classic cars arranged across three spiral floors.

Kolonaki museum displaying over 100 functional reconstructions of ancient Greek engineering inventions, automata, and acoustic mechanisms.

Modern archaeological museum at the foot of the Acropolis displaying archaic masterpieces and Parthenon friezes in glass-floored galleries.

Specialist museum in Perissa displaying prehistoric plant fossils, mineral specimens, and geological artifacts illustrating Santorini’s history.

Private folklore museum in Kontochori set in an 1861 cave residence, showcasing traditional island crafts, winemaking, and family living.

A small history museum in an 18th-century Venetian mansion in Fira’s Catholic quarter. It shows engravings, Catholic Diocese archives, paintings and photographs of Santorini before and after the 1956 earthquake. Open May to October.

Active volcanic island at the center of the Santorini caldera, featuring guided hiking paths across black lava fields to smoking sulfur craters.

Historic maritime museum in Oia housed in a restored 19th-century mansion, displaying ship models, navigational instruments, and naval artifacts.

Innovative museum in Thisio, Athens dedicated to ancient Greek science, technology, and mathematics through interactive mechanical models.

Restored 1945 tomato-canning factory in Vlychada showcasing historic processing machinery, island agricultural history, and paste tastings.

Historic 19th-century building on the Acropolis summit that originally displayed ancient pedimental sculptures before the modern museum opened.

Specialized Oia museum displaying faithful acoustic reconstructions of ancient Greek stringed, wind, and percussion instruments.

Small maritime museum set in a restored 19th-century Oia captain’s mansion, featuring ship models, nautical instruments, and seafaring archives.

Central Fira archaeological museum displaying ancient wall frescoes, painted pottery, and Bronze Age artifacts excavated from Akrotiri.