Emfietzoglou Gallery Museum

The Emfietzoglou Gallery Museum
Νέα Πινακοθήκη Συλλογής Εμφιετζόγλου
Established	1999 (opened to public)
Location	Foinikon Str., Anavryta, Marousi, Athens 151 26
Coordinates	38°03′32″N 23°49′27″E / 38.05886364989725°N 23.824190679880157°E
Type	Art Gallery
Collection size	~750 works
Founder	Prodromos Emfietzoglou
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 Athens 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 area 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.

Collection

The collection of the Gallery includes major artworks by notable Greek artists such as:

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

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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
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Education/sports/ special interests	Athens University Museum Hellenic Children's Museum Hellenic Cosmos Hellenic Maritime Museum Mineralogy and Petrology Museum Museum of Anthropology of University of Athens Museum of Criminology Numismatic Museum of Athens Postal & Philatelic Museum of Greece Spathario Museum Tactual Museum of Athens Theatrical Museum of Greece Zoological Museum of the University of Athens
Museum ships	Georgios Averof Velos D16 SS Hellas Liberty Olympias

History

The Gallery

Collection

Visitor information

See also

References