Thessaloniki Insectopia Exhibition Insectopia Exhibition is very interesting for travelers who are interested in educational exhibitions related with biology and nature. Insectopia, hosts one of the largest and more replete ant colonies. Its visitors can see a big variety of different kinds of ants (more than 1000 and a very special one that [...]
Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum is located close to the building of YMCA and in the same building block with the Museum of Byzantine Culture. It is a listed building as a unique example of modernist art in Greece. The Museum’s collections include distinctive works of art and excavation finds from across [...]
Thessaloniki Museum of Byzantine Culture The Museum of Byzantine Culture was officially founded in 1994 and it is located almost opposite the South Entrance of Thessaloniki's Exhibition Fair (Helexpo). It runs as an independent regional unit of The Ministry of Culture since 1997. The idea for its generation comes from 1913, a year after when [...]
Thessaloniki Cinema Museum Thessaloniki's Cinema Museum is located at the Dock1 of Thessaloniki's port in the Warehouse A. The museum is also participating in Thessaloniki's film festival. It was founded in 1995 following a decision by the Organization for Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997. The museum's mission is to present the Greek [...]
Thessaloniki Saint Dimitrios Crypt Saint Demtrios Crypt, is located inside the church of Saint Demetrios above the Roman market. The crypt used to be the Roman Baths at which the thaumaturge patron prostate of Thessaloniki Saint Demetrios was imprisoned and later on (in 306AC) found a martyric death. In 380 AC when Theodosios [...]
Thessaloniki White Tower Museum The White Tower historic building and monument is housing its own museum. The White Tower was build during the Ottoman years (approx. around 1430) and substituted an old Byzantine Tower that was in its position in order to fortify the city's harbor. The building takes the form of a [...]
Macedonian Museum of Modern Art The Macedonian Museum of Modern Art is located inside Thessaloniki's exhibition center (Helexpo) close to its South entrance. The museum emerged as a thought, following the a major earthquake that happened in Thessaloniki in 1978 which at its passage damaged various archeological and historical monuments. In 1978 the [...]
Thessaloniki Radio Museum Thessaloniki's radio museum is located inside the Thessaloniki International Fair (Helexpo). It runs since December 2000 under a private initiative mainly of retired ex employees of Thessaloniki's Macedonian radio station that used to operate inside the Fair. Its purpose is to preserve old technologies and any type of exhibits that [...]
Roman Agora Market Museum The Roman Market was revealed in the early 60s. It is located above Aristotelous square and was the main center of Thessaloniki during the Roman times. In the center of the market there is a large open space. Two main complexes of the market survived through time: 1. The [...]
Thessaloniki Train Museum Thessaloniki trains museum, is located at the West part of Thessaloniki in the boarders of the Kordelio and Evosmos region. It operates since June 2001 under Greece's train services organization in a historical buidling which was build at the end of the 19th century (1891-1894) during the Ottoman period. The [...]
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