National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum

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National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum pairs a crisp modern building with gardens, outdoor sculpture, and galleries that trace Greek art from post-Byzantine and 19th-century painting into 20th-century work. Temporary exhibitions extend the visit downstairs, including displays drawn from the museum’s own holdings such as Goya’s Los Caprichos, while the wider collection spans painting, sculpture, engraving, and other media. Inside, the experience can take time: several floors, an audio guide app, lifts between levels, a café tucked downstairs, and a restaurant above with views toward the Acropolis and Lycabettus. The main building is one part of a larger institution, but here the focus stays on the history of Greek modern art and a broad sweep of artists shown across permanent and temporary displays.