Γεωργικό Μουσείο Γεωπονικού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών
The Agricultural Museum of the Agricultural University of Athens in Votanikos, with exhibitions on the history of Greek agriculture and a museum of minerals and rocks.
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About the museum
The Agricultural Museum was founded in March 2005 (Government Gazette 402 of 29 March 2005), with the aim of highlighting the contribution of the Agricultural University of Athens to the modernisation and development of Greek agriculture and the rural world. Since 2008 the Documentation Centre for the History of Greek Agriculture, which holds the university’s archive, has operated on the same site.
The museum occupies about 2,000 square metres on two floors of the renovated building of the former Veterinary Institute, a pi-shaped building constructed in 1929 as a factory producing sera. The first exhibition of the collections was opened in 2010, on the occasion of the university’s 90th anniversary.
The collections include more than 1,000 scientific instruments and laboratory equipment, traditional agricultural tools and household utensils, as well as the works of the painter and teacher Manolis Vathis with plants of the Greek flora. The Mouseio Orykton kai Petromaton Elladas (Museum of Minerals and Rocks of Greece), a donation from Professor Eleftheria Davi, was installed on the site in 2009 and opened in its present form in 2013.
Highlights
- Exhibition “1920–2020” on a century of Greek agriculture
- Mouseio Orykton kai Petromaton Elladas (Museum of Minerals and Rocks of Greece)
- Collection of scientific instruments of the university
- Agricultural tools and household utensils from the countryside
- Botanical works by Manolis Vathis
Permanent exhibitions
- 1920–2020. Κρίσεις, ΑντιΚρίσεις, ΣυγΚρίσεις – A journey of a hundred years with phases of growth and crisis, using agriculture and the role of the Agricultural University as examples, starting from the Asia Minor Catastrophe of 1922.
- Μουσείο Ορυκτών και Πετρωμάτων Ελλάδος «Καθηγήτριας Ελευθερίας Δάβη» – The most important minerals, ores and quarry products of Greece.
- Founded
- 2005
- Operated by
- Γεωπονικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Admission & discounts
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Accessibility
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Kids & families
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Getting there & parking
By public transit
Κεραμεικός
Metro Line 3, Keramikos station (a short distance away); bus 856 (Egaleo – Ymittos – Dafni) on Iera Odos, opposite the university; buses 813 (stop Spyrou Patsi), 026 and 027.
Amenities & dining
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | For group visits a guided tour by specialist scientific staff is available by arrangement with the museum. School groups visit on a case-by-case basis after contacting the university’s International and Public Relations Department (tel. +30 210 529 4841 and +30 210 529 4845). |
