Koumantareios Gallery

About the museum

The Koumantareios Gallery is the first branch of the National Gallery outside Athens. It was founded in 1982, when the children of Ioannis Koumantaros, Dolly Goulandris and Georgios Koumantaros, donated the neoclassical building and their father’s collection.

The Koumantaros Collection is displayed on the ground floor, with European painting from the 16th to the 19th century on a variety of subjects. The first floor was fully renovated in 2018 and houses the permanent exhibition, a concise survey of modern Greek art from the early years of the Greek state to the present day. Subjects presented include history painting, portraiture, antiquity, scenes of everyday life, symbolism, plein-air painting, the question of Greek light and identity, and abstraction, with works by Vryzakis, Lytras, Gyzis, Chalepas, Parthenis, Moralis, Kapralos and Fassianos, among others.

Highlights

• The Koumantaros Collection of 16th- to 19th-century European painting
• Permanent exhibition of modern Greek art on the first floor
• Works by Gyzis, Lytras, Chalepas, Parthenis, Moralis and Fassianos
• Neoclassical building, first branch of the National Gallery outside Athens

Permanent exhibitions

• Συλλογή Κουμανταρού – European painting from the 16th to the 19th century, on a variety of subjects, is displayed on the ground floor.
• Μόνιμη έκθεση νεοελληνικής τέχνης – The first floor, fully renovated in 2018, presents the development of Greek art from the early years of the state to the present day.

Founded

1982

Operated by

Εθνική Πινακοθήκη – Μουσείο Αλεξάνδρου Σούτζου

Admission & discounts

Free admission: The first Sunday of each month from 1 November to 31 March, 6 March, 18 April, 18 May and the last weekend of September.

Free admission and reduced tickets are available to special categories of visitors, in accordance with the list of the National Gallery.

Accessibility

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Visitors with disabilities enter from Thermopylon Street 95.

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