National Historical Museum - Old Parliament House
Neoclassical former parliament chamber turned museum of modern Greek history, from Ottoman rule to World War Two.
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This guide to the National Historical Museum – Old Parliament House in Athens opens on the afternoon of June 13, 1905, when seventy-nine-year-old prime minister Theodoros Deligiannis climbed these same steps toward the doors ahead of you. Waiting for him was Antonios Gherakaris, a gambler whose income Deligiannis had just cut off by cracking down on Athens's gambling houses, a dagger hidden in his coat. The guide also traces the building itself, raised in the 1850s for Queen Amalia and finished only after King Otto was forced from the country, before deputies within these same walls later declared Greece a republic.
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