Things to do in Athens, Attica: The Best Specialty Museums

Athens Pinball Museum has over 100 pinball (flippers) machines on exhibit to view and to PLAY! APM is conveniently located on the foothills of the Acropolis just 30 meters from the Acropolis metro station, our address Marki 2 just off Dionisiou Aeropagou sreet. With a one-time entrance fee of 10 euro, you can play unlimited games of pinball, to your hearts' content WITHOUT COINS! APM is a feast for the senses, an interactive museum that we know will make you smile. Nostalgia at its finest for those who grew up playing pinball and a delightful introduction to pinball for the younger generations. Athens Pinball Museum awaits you for an experience like no other in Athens!

The ILJM is the only jewelry museum in Greece. It is a nonprofit cultural organization certified by the Greek Ministries of Finance and of Culture since 1993. The ILJMuseum is not government funded. The Museum strives to act as an international center for the continuation of traditional crafts especially the ancient art of silver and goldsmithery. In its twenty years of operation over 50 temporary exhibitions have been organized in Greece and abroad. 1200 specialized educational programs have reached over 90.000 children and 20.000 adults. Its future agenda includes introducing new initiatives on education of art and cultural education through fun and inspirational activities for both children and adults. Collaboration with international Museums, organizations and Educational institutions is needed more than ever to bring Greece in the front page of the international Cultural agenda.

The Museum Herakleidon was founded in 2004 by Mr and Mrs Firos and extends to two buildings in the historic district of Thissio, next to the Acropolis, the Ancient Agora and the Temple of Hephaestus. The first building is located at 16 Herakleidon str. and the second one 150 meters further, at 37 Ap. Pavlou str., one of the busiest pedestrian streets of Athens. During the first decade of its operation, the museum focused on artistic activities and organized exhibitions with artworks of great artists such as M.C. Escher, Victor Vasarely, Carol Wax, Constantine Xenakis, Adolf Luther, Francesco Scavullo, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Sol LeWitt and others. At the same time, a plethora of cultural activities allowed visitors to explore the essence of each artist's perspective. Today the Museum Herakleidon has evolved to an interactive center of science popularization and to a technological museum that focuses on antiquity, with emphasis on the achievements of the ancient

Operation hours: Saturdays and Sundays: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. (for the interactive exhibition in Greek and in English language) 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. (for workshops only in Greek language) For further information please contact the secretariat of the museum. Information daily: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Emotions Museum is a unique interactive museum about emotions! It uses interactive exhibitions, play and fairytales, in order to encourage children and teenagers to discover their emotional world, to learn more about themselves and others. Moreover, it sensitizes adults, parents and teachers on subjects which deal with the children’s emotional development and socialization. Museum' s philosophy is as children grow up they usually get confused with their emotions, they feel the need to understand themselves and the world that surrounds them and find their own meaning in life. Harmonic emotional development helps them to become creative, sociable, tolerant and happy adults.