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The building first opened in 1842, initially housing the Elpis Municipal Hospital. Initially designed by the German architect F. Schaubert, the building has housed the Cultural Centre since 1971. Today it hosts, amongst others, all the central services of OPANDA....

The Melina Cultural Centre is housed in the old hat factory of Ilias Poulopoulos, which was founded in 1886. The original hat factory was nicknamed Pil-Poul: Pil from “pilos”, meaning hat, and Poul from the owner’s last name, Poulopoulos. It...

The Arts Centre at Parko Eleftherias is a landmark as it is part of a four-building complex of late 19th-century military architecture, which the Greek Military Police (EAT – ESA) used as torture sites during the dictatorship (1967-1974). Today, the...

The City of Athens Central Library is one of the oldest libraries in Greece. It was founded by the mayor Anargyros Petrakis in 1835 and is now housed in the traditional building at 2 Domokou Street near Larissa Railway Station....

The Aggeliki Chatzimichali Museum of Folk Art and Tradition has been operating since 1980 and is housed in the old mansion of the first Greek folklorist Aggeliki Chatzimichali (1895-1965) in Plaka. The Museum collections include folk art, wood carving, metalwork,...

The legendary building of Akadimias Street, which housed the National Opera House for more than 50 years, has now become the City Music Theatre of Athens. A new era has begun for the Olympia Theatre, and the city itself since...

The Technopolis City of Athens is housed in the old Athens Gasworks. This rare industrial monument has been transformed into the most vibrant cultural space in the city’s heart, open and accessible to all, with more than 1,000,000 visitors a year....

The Municipal Gallery of Athens, which belongs to OPANDA, was founded in 1914 with the painter Stavros Papapanagiotou as its first curator. From 1923, the Gallery’s collection gradually developed into a more object-based assemblage, while in the 1930s -1940s, it was enriched...