The museums of Thessaloniki
Throughout the year the visitors of Thessaloniki have the opportunity to marvel at rare and exquisite findings and monuments not only of the Greek but also of the international cultural heritage on display in Thessaloniki’s museums.
The culture of Macedonia since the prehistoric era and until the late antiquity is presented in the Archaeological Museum (www.amth.gr), while the Byzantine Museum (www.mbp.gr) is home to exhibits of great historical and religious value, a heritage of our Byzantine ancestors.
MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art- Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art Collections (formerly: the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art) is charged with promoting contemporary art and the study of art movements in Greece and abroad through the preservation and promotion of its achievements, mostly in the visual arts. The permanent collection of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art includes important works by Greek and foreign artists, while the State Museum of Modern Art is one of the most important of its kind and home to the superlative “Kostakis” collection, showcasing works of the Russian avant-garde.
The nucleus of the collection Telloglion Foundation for the Arts (www.teloglion.gr) is the donation of its founder, Telloglou, which includes works of art from various culture and important works by Greek and European artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Also worth visiting is the Jewish Museum, the Museum for the Macedonian Struggle, the Folklore & Ethnological Museum of Macedonia-Thrace, the History Center of Thessaloniki, with its rich historical archives for the city, the Cinema Museum, which is home to rare footage from films and news reels, the Museum of Photography, the War Museum showcasing important war exhibits from the Balkan and the two World Wards, the Olympic Museum, the Water Museum, housed in an old pump station of the Water Company of Thessaloniki and the Hellenic Pharmaceutical Museum, the only of its kind in Greece.