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The Fishermen, a woodcut by A. Tassos - Museum of Engravings and Graphic Arts

 


Museum of Engravings and Graphic Arts

 


The course of the Ionian Bank, throughout its 150 years of life, has run parallel to the course of modern Greek engraving. To celebrate this anniversary, the Bank decided to create a collection of engravings and graphic arts, with the intention of founding a Museum to house this collection, which would cover the lack of such an institution in Greece.

Today, over 3000 works of Greek engravers have been collected as well as 300 books and other objects related to graphic arts. The present administration of the Ionian Bank has secured a building, an attractive neoclassical building in Aghias Philotheis Street near the Cathedral church Athens, to house the collection and is proceeding to the foundation of the first Museum of Engravings and Graphic Arts in Greece, one of the very few in Europe.

The Museum aims to cover the entire spectrum of modern Greek engraving as well as that of foreign artists who have chosen subjects related to Greece.

Opening hours Opening hours and admission
Locaton map Ionian Bank, 10 Aghia Filothei Street – Mitropoleos Square
Nearest metro station
Syntagma - Monastiraki Top

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