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Museums of Thessaloniki
- Archaeology Museum: near the White Tower and fairgrounds, tel. 830.538. Displaying sculpture of the archaic, classical and Roman periods. A special wing houses the impressive unique findings of Vergina including the contents of the tomb of Phillip of Macedon, found intact by Professor Andronikos in 1977. Even the bones of Phillip are on display.According to Frommers this is one of the finest museums in Europe so don't miss it.
- New Museum of Byzantine Culture: 2 Stratou St., tel.: 868.570.
- Ethnological and Popular Art: 68, Vas. Olgas, tel. 830.591 displaying costumes and objects of the last 250 years of Greek national life and culture. One of the best in Greece.
- Museum of the Macedonian Struggle: 23, Proxenou Koromila Str. tel. 229.778. Exhibits from the years of local national resistance 1878-1912.
- White Tower Museum: tel. 267.832. An exhibition of the history and art of Byzantine Thessaloniki covering the period between 300 and 1430 AD. There is a small cafe with a great view at the top.
- Gallery of Fine Arts: 1, Nic. Germanou Str. inside the building of the National Theatre, tel. 238.601. Important works of Greek and foreign painters.
- Municipal Gallery: 162, Vas. Olgas, tel. 425.531. Museum of the Crypt: Inside the church of Agios Dimitrios, tel. 270.591
- Museum of the Society for Macedonian Studies: 1, Nic. Germanou Str. tel. 238.601.
- Northern Greece Cultural Centre: 108, Vas. 01- gas Str., tel. 834.4o4.
- Macedonian Centre of Modern Art: International Trade Fair grounds, tel. 281.567
- Technical Museum of Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki Industrial Area, 2nd Street, Building no 47, tel. 799.773.
- Museum of Attaturk: The founder of modern Turkey was actually born in Thessaloniki and his house has been turned into a historical museum. Don't be put off if the guard asks for your passport. No, it's not a small island of Turkish territory in the midst of Greece's second largest city, but with ocassional tensions between the two countries they don't want to take any chances of someone defacing the displays. The last time somebody blew up this house in the fifities it set off anti-Greek riots in Istanbul and the expulsion of several thousand remaining Greeks.
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