Benaki Museum: Director's Choice

The Benaki Museum was founded by Antonis Benakis, a visionary collector and Greek patriot, and has grown into one of the most innovative cultural organizations in Europe. It includes several branches, such as a museum dedicated to Greek culture, a gallery on modernism, a museum of Islamic art, a sculptor's studio, a collector's home, a museum of toys, a writer's seaside retreat, a passementerie factory, and an exhibitions center.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 09 August 2021
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd

Antonis Benakis, a visionary collector and cosmopolitan Greek patriot born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, founded the Benaki Museum in 1931. Since its opening to the public, the museum has grown into one of the most innovative cultural organizations in Europe. Today, it encompasses several branches, including a museum dedicated to Greek culture from prehistory to the 1940s, a gallery on modernism in Greece, a museum of Islamic art, a 20th-century sculptor's studio, a collector's home, a museum of toys from around the world, a celebrated writer's seaside retreat, a passementerie factory, and an exhibitions center.

Spread across this network of venues in Athens and beyond, diverse cultures from all historical periods come together with contemporary art movements, allowing the Benaki to place the Greek world within a global context.

Weight: 336g
Dimension: 167 x 190 x 9 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781785513480