Museum of the ancient Agora of Athens

The museum of the ancient Agora of Athens is sheltered in the Stoa d' Attale, large the Portique hellenistic, rebuilt between 1953 and 1956, on the east coast of the agora of Athens.

It is largely a museum set of themes, whose exposed collection, of modest size, relates to especially the operation of the Athenian Démocratie, including one most of the centers of being able were indeed localized on or around the Agora. One finds thus there inscriptions relating to the administration and the diplomacy of the ancient city, accessories attesting of the work of the democratic institutions (Clepsydre, Klérotèrion, Ostracon, tokens of vote,…), but also of the honorary or votive statues.

The other part of the collections gives an account of the occupation of this zone of the city since the geometrical time until the medieval time.

Other activities

Stoa d' Attale is sometimes used for nonarchaeological demonstrations which wish to profit from the prestige of this monument symbol of the ancient city. Thus the signing ceremony of the treaty of widening of the U.E took seat there, under the Greek presidency of the U.E., on April 16th, 2003.

See too

Presentation of the museum on the site of the Greek minister of the culture.

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