Museum
Frissiras Museum
Greek name: Μουσείο Φρυσίρα
Say it: Mouseio Frysira
Wheelchair access: Not wheelchair accessible
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About
Frissiras Museum is a contemporary painting museum in Plaka Athens, Greece. Its permanent collection consists of around 4000 paintings and sculptures by Greek and other European artists on the subject of the human form. Due to the relatively small size of the museum, its collection is displayed in rotating temporary exhibitions. The museum was inaugurated by President of the Republic Konstantinos Stephanopoulos on November 27, 2000 and was officially opened by the Mayor of Athens Dimitris Avramopoulos on December 4, 2000. The museum is a non-profit organisation founded and administered by the Frissiras family. It houses the private collection of Vlassis Frissiras, its founder, an attorney. He began collecting works by young Greek visual artists in 1978, with the aim of forming a collection consisting of paintings centered on the human form and body, and figurative painting that reinstates methodology marginalized by newer art forms. In the 1990s he began to focus on other European artists.
Nearby
Places within walking or a short drive, best first.
- Tower of Adrianou streetCastle480 m away
- Roman bathsArchaeological site120 m away
- Zappeion DomusArchaeological site180 m away
- OlympieioArchaeological site190 m away
- DiogeneionArchaeological site340 m away
- Statues from the Roman Stage of the Theatre of DionysusArchaeological site390 m away
- Makri St. peristyle (Athens)Archaeological site420 m away
- Dionysus TempleArchaeological site420 m away
- Road Metro IIIArchaeological site450 m away
- Road Metro VIArchaeological site460 m away
- Makrygiannis domusArchaeological site480 m away
- PantheonArchaeological site490 m away