Emfietzoglou Gallery Museum

The Emfietzoglou Gallery Museum
*Νέα Πινακοθήκη Συλλογής Εμφιετζόγλου*
Established	1999 (opened to public)
Location	Foinikon Str., Anavryta, Marousi, Athens 151 26
Type	Art Gallery
Public transit access	Athens Metro stations: Marousi station
Website	No official website

The Emfietzoglou Gallery Museum is an art gallery in Athens, Greece. It is sited in Marousi near the metro station. Its founder Prodromos Emfietzoglou gave his private art collection of over 500 works to the public.

These days the Emphietsoglou gallery offers a review of 750 works of modern Greek art including some of the best paintings from the last 200 years.

History

Since 19th century Prodromos Emfietzoglou and his family due to their interest in Greek art were collecting works of various Greek painters. Their passion in combination with many artists' donations led in 1999 to the foundation of the museum. Today the collection is composed of paintings, sculpture, photography, engravings and video installations.

The Gallery

The museum is cited in Maroussi in 3.000 m2 next to the collector's residence. Today there are about 750 works of 260 Greek artists. The works are distributed in the museum's building, in the surrounding open area and some are exposed in the collector's residence but in spite of this spatial division visitors are allowed to visit all the works. The last years several educational happenings are arranged. It is calculated that about 20.000 students took part in these happenings.

Nikolaos Gyzis, "To kryfó scholió", Oil painting, 1885/86.(Emfietzoglou collection)

Collection

The collection of the Gallery includes major artworks by notable Greek Artist such us:

Visitor information

Location: Foinikon Str., Anavryta, Maroussi, Athens 151 26, Greece, Athens, Greece
Tel.: 0030-210-8097100
Opening hours: Sun 10 am - 6 pm - Educational programms:Teu-Wed 9.45 am, 11.30 am.

References

Museums in Athens

Archaeological	Acropolis Museum Epigraphical Museum Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art Kerameikos Kanellopoulou Museum National Archaeological Museum Stoa of Attalos Old Acropolis Museum Syntagma Metro Station Archaeological Collection Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies Athens International Airport Archaeological Collection

Byzantine and ecclesiastic	Byzantine & Christian Museum

Ethnological/historical	Athens War Museum Drossinis Museum Eleftherios Venizelos Historical Museum Goulandris Natural History Museum Jewish Museum of Greece Museum of the City of Athens National Historical Museum

Folklore	Museum of Greek Folk Art Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments Centre for the Study of Traditional Pottery Museum of the History of the Greek Costume

Art museums/galleries	Benaki Museum Emfietzoglou Gallery Museum Frissiras Museum Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum Municipal Gallery of Athens National Gallery (Athens) National Glyptotheque National Museum of Contemporary Art

Industry/technology	Evgenidio Foundation Hellenic Air Force Museum Hellenic Motor Museum Railway Museum of Athens Electric Railways Museum Technopolis (Gazi)

Education/sports/Special Interests	Athens University Museum Hellenic Children's Museum Hellenic Cosmos Numismatic Museum of Athens Theatrical Museum of Greece Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece

Museum ships	Georgios Averof VELOS D16 SS Hellas Liberty Olympias HS "Eugenios Eugenides" Evangelistria Cable-laying ship "Thales of Miletus"

List of museums in Greece

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