ANTHROPOLOGY MUSEUM

The Museum of Anthropology of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens was founded in 1886, and it is one of the earliest museums in Europe. Its collections are quite exceptional and some of them rare. It is open to the public and many schools visits yearly.

The main collection body includes series of skeletal material from all over Greece, and it represents a population range from all the chronological and cultural periods of the ancient Greek world.

The prehistoric collections refer to various phases of Greek and European Prehistory, including significant authentic material, which represent the cultural evolution of man, mainly in the Greek area.

The paleo-anthropological museum collections concern an amount of anthropological replica remains from all over the world, covering all eras of the five million year human evolution (=Homo) and the phylogenetic history of Hominids (=Hominidae).

Moreover, among the collections there are three rare Egyptian mummies. After careful anthropological examination from experts, these mummies are of exquisite archaeological, museological, as well as educational and research value.

Last but not least, the museum possesses some very interesting ethnological collections of exhibits, from Africa, Asia and the Americas, such as authentic Samurai costumes of Japanese warriors.

The Museum of Anthropology of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens was founded in 1886, and it is one of the earliest museums in Europe. Its collections are quite exceptional and some of them rare. It is open to the public and many schools visits yearly.