Museum of Cycladic Art
Goulandris collection of Cycladic figurines and Greek art, joined to Ziller's Stathatos Mansion.
The Museum of Cycladic Art was founded by Nikolaos and Dolly Goulandris to house the collection of Cycladic antiquities they had assembled from the 1960s onwards. It opened in 1986 in a purpose-built gallery on Neophytou Douka Street designed by Ioannis Vikelas. The core display covers the marble figurines, vessels and tools of the Early Bronze Age Cyclades, shown alongside floors devoted to ancient Greek art from about 2000 BC to the sixth century AD and to Cypriot antiquities.
In 1991 the museum took over the neighbouring Stathatos Mansion, a neoclassical house built in 1895 by Ernst Ziller for the shipowner Othon Stathatos, and linked it to the main galleries by a glass-roofed corridor. The mansion is used for temporary exhibitions, which regularly place modern and contemporary artists in dialogue with the antiquities. A fourth-floor gallery, Scenes from Daily Life in Antiquity, reconstructs everyday Greek life through objects and drawings.
Highlights
- Early Cycladic marble figurines of the third millennium BC
- Stathatos Mansion of 1895 by Ernst Ziller
- Scenes from Daily Life in Antiquity gallery
- Cypriot antiquities from the Thanos Zintilis collection
