Museum
Numismatic Museum of Athens
Ιλίου Μέλαθρον, Ελ. Βενιζέλου, Panepistimiou 12, 10671, Athina 106 71
Ornate nineteenth-century mansion turned coin museum, with mosaic floors evoking the fall of Troy.
This guide to the Numismatic Museum of Athens follows Heinrich Schliemann, the self-made archaeologist convinced he had found Homer's lost Troy, who hired architect Ernst Ziller to build him a private Athens palace finished around 1880. It traces the mosaic floors copied from his digs, the ceiling frescoes of burning Troy, and the grand party that opened the house in 1881. You'll hear who moved into the building after Schliemann's death in 1890. Look up at the painted ceiling as you listen.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.