{"id":110,"date":"2020-01-04T20:53:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T20:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site68.blogs.americavip.com\/2020\/01\/04\/benaki-museum\/"},"modified":"2020-01-04T20:53:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T20:53:19","slug":"benaki-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/en\/2020\/01\/04\/benaki-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Benaki Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_92\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92\" class=\"size-large wp-image-92\" src=\"http:\/\/site68.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/69\/files\/sites\/69\/2020\/01\/Benaki-Museum-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Benaki Museum\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/69\/files\/sites\/69\/2020\/01\/Benaki-Museum-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/69\/files\/sites\/69\/2020\/01\/Benaki-Museum-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/69\/files\/sites\/69\/2020\/01\/Benaki-Museum-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benaki Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benaki Museum (1 Koumbari St. &amp; Vas. Sofias Avenue, Athens) \u2013<\/strong> local benefactor Anthony Benaki founded this museum in 1930, is housed in a refurbished neo-classical building in the center of Athens, and has a diverse collection of Greek art, consisting of 40,000 items, illustrating the character of the Greek world through a spectacular historical panorama: from antiquity and the age of Roman domination to the medieval Byzantine period; from the fall of Constantinople (1453) and the centuries of Frankish and Ottoman occupation to the outbreak of the struggle for independence in 1821; and from the formation of the modern state of Greece (1830) down to the early 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>Hours: 9:00 am \u2013 5:00 pm (Wednesday &amp; Friday), 9:00 am \u2013 12:00 am (Thursday &amp; Saturday), 9:00 am \u2013 3:00 pm (Sunday). Closed on Monday &amp; Tuesday. Admission: \u20ac7 (general), \u20ac5 (reduced: seniors\/students), \u20ac1 (journalists). Free admission for those under 22 years of age, unemployed and the disabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Benaki Museum (1 Koumbari St. &amp; Vas. Sofias Avenue, Athens) \u2013 local benefactor Anthony Benaki founded this museum in 1930, is housed in a refurbished neo-classical building in the center of Athens, and has a diverse collection of Greek art, consisting of 40,000 items, illustrating the character of the Greek world through a spectacular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recreation","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.greecevip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}