War Museum
The War Museum is located in the same area as the National Gallery and the Byzantine Museum. While the Byzantine Museum houses excellent collections related to Byzantine art and cultural history, the War Museum offers the opportunity to view Byzantium from a different perspective, through the lens of warfare and the portrayal of emperors. War Museum, March 2022. Photo: OI The museum is situated in a modernist building – its architecture is reminiscent of Mies van der Rohe's Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie, somewhat like Turku's Wäinö Aaltonen Museum in Finland. The Athens museum opened in 1975. The War Museum begins its exhibition with Stone Age weapons and somewhat unexpectedly continues with the presentation of Cycladic art. Exhibit from the War Museum: Cycladic female marble figures. Early period, 2700-2300 BCE. Cycladic Art Museum. Replicas. Photo: OI Moving through Mycenae, the exhibition progresses to classical Greek sculpture, focusing on the warfare and warriors of the ti...