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In 2008, the Museum of Modern Greek Culture created a new annex at 22 Panos Street in Plaka to house the permanent exhibition “Man and Tools. Aspects of labour in the pre-industrial world”, consisting of tools and products of traditional labour, part of a collection of around 1.000 objects donated to the Museum by the Society for Ethnographic Studies.
The objects are displayed in a contemporary, accommodating environment from a different point of view, inviting visitors to explore their hidden histories and seek out the significance they held for those who made them and those who used them in both cities and villages before mass production.
Among others, visitors may explore such topics as the need to create tools and the differences between pre-industrial and industrial-age tools, the influence of environmental conditions on tool construction and the profound emotional connection that frequently developed between craftsmen and their tools.
Here, visitors can investigate subjects, such as the significance of labour for its practitioners, labour as a means of survival and a determining factor of one’s standard of living and social status, the practice of specialization as a basic element of traditional labour, as well as the places, the time and the conditions under which farmers, craftsmen, and merchants marketed their wares.
Access
22 Panos St, Plaka
Athens 10555
On foot
15 minutes from Monastiraki Square
By metro
Lines 1 & 3, exit at “Monastiraki” metro station
Opening hours
Summer hours
April 1 – October 31
Mon: 08:30 – 15:30
Tue: closed
Wed: 08:30 – 15:30
Thu: 08:30 – 15:30
Fri: 08:30 – 15:30
Sat: 08:30 – 15:30
Sun: 08:30 – 15:30
Winter hours
November 1 – March 31
Mon: 08:30 – 15:30
Tue: closed
Wed: 08:30 – 15:30
Thu: 08:30 – 15:30
Fri: 08:30 – 15:30
Sat: 08:30 – 15:30
Sun: 08:30 – 15:30
Last admission: 20 minutes before closing time
The site remains closed on the following dates and public holidays: January 1, March 25, May 1, Easter Sunday, December 25 & 26.
The site remains closed on the following dates and public holidays: January 1, March 25, May 1, Easter Sunday, December 25 & 26.
Tickets
Full: €5,00
Reduced: €3,00
Admission is free on March 6, April 18, May 18, the last weekend of September, on October 28, as well as on the first and third Sunday of each month between November 1 and March 31.
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Contact
22 Panos St Building
T: +30 210 3314972
Museum of Modern Greek Culture
T: +30 210 3239382
E: [email protected]
