Museum Places to Visit in Santorini & Greece

The Tomato Industrial Museum, D.Nomikos traces Santorini’s tomato processing industry history through machinery, tools, and exhibits.

A family-owned ouzo distillery offering guided tours, tastings, and a museum showcasing Greece’s beloved spirit.

A magnificently preserved 19th-century mansion offering guided tours through lavishly decorated rooms.

A captivating repository of ancient treasures showcasing vases, frescoes, sculptures, and inscriptions that offer a window into Santorini’s storied past.

A heritage museum housed in a 19th-century cave house, showcasing antique furnishings and artifacts that bring Santorini’s folklore to life.

Contemporary art museum in traditional Megalochori village with personally curated international collections and passionate owner guidance

Interactive Santorini museum in Megalochori linking the Atlantis myth with the island’s volcanic history through 9D effects, holograms, and multilingual digital exhibits.

Underground Santorini wine museum and winery in Vothonas, where a long cave route through the island’s wine history is now experienced as part of structured tasting packages.

Interactive, trick-of-the-eye rooms create surreal experiences perfect for selfies.

A captivating collection of artifacts and exhibits chronicle significant battles and campaigns throughout the ages.

A captivating collection of Greek & European paintings, sculptures, engravings, and installations spanning from the 1400s to present day.

Major Athens museum in the Benakis family mansion, tracing Greek culture from prehistory to the modern era in one elegant Kolonaki setting.

A private art museum offering rotating exhibitions, lectures, concerts, a gift shop, and a cafe.

A history museum showcasing modern Greek art, weaponry, and documents within a former parliament building.

A museum showcasing a collection of coins and medals spanning from antiquity through the modern era.

Major Athens modern and contemporary art museum in Pangrati, known for its Goulandris collection and strong temporary exhibitions.

Benaki’s major contemporary exhibition venue in Athens, known for temporary shows, photography, design, architecture, and late-opening cultural programming at Pireos 138.

Elegant Athens museum best known for its world-class Cycladic figurines, with strong ancient Greek and Cypriot collections in a focused, design-friendly setting.

Interactive Marousi museum tracing the Olympic Games from antiquity to the present through multimedia, memorabilia, and family-friendly exhibits in Golden Hall.

Small but exceptional Plaka museum with Greece’s richest collection of folk musical instruments, linking traditional craftsmanship, regional music, and ethnomusicology.

Athens museum of automotive history with more than 110 historic cars, tracing the evolution of the automobile across three floors near the National Archaeological Museum.

Interactive Athens museum using working reconstructions to explain ancient Greek engineering, invention, and technology in a way that feels hands-on rather than purely academic.

Flagship Athens museum at the foot of the Acropolis, housing sculptures and artifacts from the Acropolis hill in one of Greece’s most important modern museum buildings.

Small specialist museum in Perissa displaying Santorini minerals, fossils, and rare caldera paleoflora that help explain the island’s volcanic history.

Traditional cave-house folklore museum in Kontochori near Fira, with a canava, workshops, archives, and one of Santorini’s best snapshots of everyday island life.

Small but rewarding Fira museum and cultural center in a restored 17th-century mansion, with maps, manuscripts, photographs, and Santorini history collections.

Boat-access volcanic islet in Santorini’s caldera, best known for Nea Kameni hikes, lava landscapes, and volcano-and-hot-springs excursions.

Oia maritime museum focused on Santorini’s seafaring history, with ship models, nautical objects, and exhibits inside a historic captain’s house.

Interactive Athens museum in Thissio focused on ancient Greek technology, science, art, and mathematics, with visit tips, tickets, hours, and nearby sights.

Unique museum in a restored tomato-canning factory showcasing Santorini volcanic soil agriculture with vintage machinery and tomato paste tastings.

Historic former museum on the Acropolis, originally built to house early excavation finds before the collections moved to the New Acropolis Museum.

Specialized museum preserving Greek musical heritage through faithful replicas from prehistoric through Byzantine eras with audio demonstrations

Small maritime museum in an Oia captain’s mansion, with ship models, nautical artifacts, and insight into Santorini’s seafaring past.

Santorini’s key archaeological museum in Fira, home to Akrotiri frescoes, prehistoric artifacts, and essential Bronze Age context before or after visiting Akrotiri.