Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Attica, Greece | Hotel

The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Aegean Sea, Greece, is dedicated to the study and promotion of ancient cultures of the Aegean and Cyprus, with special emphasis on Cycladic Art of the 3rd millennium BC.
Museum of Cycladic Art was founded in Athens, Aegean Sea, in 1986, to house the collection of Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris. Since then it has grown in size to accommodate new acquisitions, obtained either through direct purchases or through donations by important collectors and institutions.
Today, in the galleries of the Museum of Cycladic Art the visitor can approach three major subjects.
Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris started collecting archaeological objects at the beginning of the ?60s, after being granted official permission by the Greek state. The collection soon became renowned among scholars because of its exquisite and rare Cycladic objects (marble figurines and vessels), which were published by Prof. Christos Doumas in 1968.
The collection was first presented at the Benaki Museum in 1978. Between 1979 and 1983 it traveled to major museums and galleries around the globe: the National Gallery of Washington in 1979, the Museum of Western Art at Tokyo and Kyoto in 1980, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts in 1981, the Musees Royaux d?Art et d?Histoire and the Palais des Beaux Arts at at Brussels in 1982, the British Museum at London in 1983 and the Grand Palais at Paris in 1983. In recent years, Cycladic objects from the N.P. Goulandris Collection have been presented at the Museo Nacional ? Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid (1999), the Musei Capitolini in Rome (2006) and the Beijing Art Museum, Imperial City in the Chinese capital (2008).