Today, instead of heading down to the beach, decided to take advantage of free entrance to the museums due to the National Holiday. And for the first time visited very lovely Numismatic Museum, situated at Panepistimiou Street, just off the Syntagma Square. Museum's building is a former house of Heinrich Schliemann, an archeologist, who was working on excavations of Troy.
According to the author of 'Archeology and Arts' Touratsoglou the collection of the museum contains 600,000 objects, mainly coins, but also medals, standard masses, dies and stamps from the 14th century BC up to modern times. Highly recommended, especially on the hot day like today, since the whole building is very nicely air-conditioned:)
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