Benaki Museum

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The Benaki Museum was established and endowed in 1930 by Antonis Benakis in memory of his father Emmanuel Benakis, at the Benakis family mansion in downtown Athens, Greece. The museum houses Greek works of art from the prehistorical to the modern times, an extensive collection of Asian art, hosts periodic exhibitions and maintains a state-of-the-art restoration and conservation workshop.

Over the years it has been further endowed by various donors, and it now includes the seaside Kouloura Mansion in Palaio Phaliro, which is to house a Children's Toys Collection, the Benaki Islamic Art Museum in the Kerameikos district, the Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Museum in downtown Athens, and the Delta House in Kifissia, which houses the Historical Archive Collection.

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• The Benaki Museum
• Benaki Collection Postbyzantine ecclesiastical works

v • d • e Museums with major collections of Islamic Art

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo, Egypt 103,000 objects [1] Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum, Istanbul, Turkey 40,000 objects [2] British Museum, London, UK 40,000 objects [3] Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait City, Kuwait 30,000 objects [4] Khalili Collection¹ 20,000 objects [5] Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK 19,000 objects [6] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 12,000 objects [7] Musée du Louvre², Paris, USA 10,000 objects [1] Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece 8,000 objects [8] Please Note: ¹ Khalili Collection; Largest Private Collection - ² Musée du Louvre; 2005 Annual Report - Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, pg 185. n.b. it should be noted that this list is controversial, in so far as it contains only qualitative analysis of museum holdings. These may or may not reflect actual artistic quality of collections in question.

Coordinates: 37°58′33.38″N 23°44′25.47″E / 37.9759389, 23.7404083el:Μουσείο Μπενάκη es:Museo Benaki fr:Musée Benaki gl:Museo Benaki