Greece
The Athens War Museum (Greek: Πολεμικό Μουσείο), established on July 18, 1975, is the museum of the Greek Armed Forces
In 1964, the Hellenic State decided to found the War Museum, wishing to honor all those who fought for our country and its freedom.
The design of the museum was undertaken by a team of distinguished scientists, headed by Professor Thoukidides Valentis of the National Technical university of Athens (N.T.U.A).
On July 18, 1975, the President of the Hellenic Republic H.E. Constantine Tsatsos and the Minister of National Defense Evangelos Averof-Tositsas inaugurated the Museum.
Its various activities include the publication of books, the establishment and maintenance of monuments and memorials and the aid to services and agencies all over Greece.
The Museum’s exhibition areas are distributed over four levels (floors) and present images of Greek history from antiquity to the present.
The Museum of the History of the Greek Costume is a museum with a vestiary content. In its collection one can find 25.000 objects, especially costumes and jewellery of the historic greek area, copies of Minoan, archaic and byzantine costumes, as well as 23 porcelane dolls dressed in traditional outfits.
The Inscription Museum is unique in Greece, and the largest of its kind in the world. In it there are 13.536 inscriptions, mostly written in Greek. Chronologically, they cover the times from the first historic times to the paleochristianic, and most of them come from Greece.
Chrissi, or Gaidouronisi, is an island in the Libyan sea, It is one of the many islands surrounding Crete. located south of Ierapetra.Chrissi is surrounded by many beaches with golden sand, after which its modern name was given.
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