Location: Neofytou Douka 4, Kolonaki, Athens
Tel. 210 722
8321
Tram train: 3, 7
Open: 10am- 5pm Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat,
10am- 8pm Thu, 11am- 5pm Sun
Closed: public holidays
www.cycladic.gr
Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art is one of the larger museums of Athens that contain a massive collection of artefacts and items of Cycladic Art. Cycladic Civilization flourished on the islands of the Aegean Sea between 3300 BC and 2000BC. Along with Mycenaean and Minoans they formed the culture of the Ancient Greece. The museum was found in 1986 and the original collection consisted from the private collection of Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris. The building was constructed after design of Greek architect Ioannis Vikelas.
Exhibits
Its most important exhibits are artifacts of the
Cycladic culture from the 3rd millennium BC. The museum was
established in January 1986 to house the collection of Cycladic
and ancient Greek art of Nikolaos Goulandris and Dollis
Goulandris, who began acquiring the artefacts with the
permission of the authorities from the 1960s. This collection
includes many rare objects of Cycladic art. After the foundation
of the museum, the collection grew from donations and art
purchases. In 2002, Thanos Zitilis donated his large collection
of Cypriot antiquities, one of the largest privately owned.
Today the museum exhibits about 350 important works of Cycladic
art.
Periodic reports
The museum also hosts periodic
exhibitions of ancient and modern art. The museum is housed in a
specially designed building and is located at the junction of
Vas. Sofias and N. Doukas streets with a wing of the museum
being housed in the Stathatos Mansion since 1991.
October
2002 - February 2003: Salvador Dali - Myth and Oddity
April
2006 - July 2006: Caravaggio - Caravaggio and the 17th century
October 2007 - January 2008: El Greco - El Greco and his
workshop / El Greco y su taller
June 2009 - September 2009:
Thomas Struth
September 2009 - October 2009: Man, Dream and
Fear. Orpheus and Eurydice through the eyes of Palle Nielsen.
May 2010 - September 2010: Louise Bourgeois - Personalities
April 2012 - September 2012: Giannis Kounellis
May 2012 -
October 2012: Ugo Rondinone - Nude
October 2013 - January
2014: Martin Kippenberger - Martin Kippenberger: A Cry for
Freedom
October 2015 - January 2016: Mario Merz - Numbers are
prehistoric
March 2016 - May 2016: Wols and Eileen Quinlan -
meeting | Wols / Eileen Quinlan
May 2016 - October 2016: Ai
Weiwei - Ai Weiwei in Cycladic: The subversive artist Ai Weiwei
for the first time in Greece
November 2017 - February 2018:
Mike Kelley - Mike Kelley: Playful Solitude
June 2018 -
October 2018: George Condo - George Condo in the Cyclades: The
first major solo museum exhibition
July 2018 - October 2018:
Paul Chan | Odysseus and the Bathers