Goulandris Natural History Museum

The Goulandris Natural History Museum opened in 1965 in Kifisia, a northeastern suburb of Athens. Its creators, Angelos and Niki Gulandris, set a goal to draw public attention to the problem of the disappearance of wild animals in Greece and to point out the need to protect the environment.

The collection of the museum is divided into departments: Botany, Terrestrial Zoology, Marine Biology, Geology-Paleontology. The botanical collection includes more than 200,000 plant species. A database is available on the museum website. The museum conducts extensive research activities: field research and collection, species identification and recording, introduction to data banks of the obtained results, publication of articles in scientific journals (including international ones), research in the field of ecology, thematic exhibitions in Greece and abroad, joint scientific research. The museum also supports educational activities. There are regular classes for schoolchildren and students.

The museum has a shop where you can buy color reproductions depicting representatives of the Greek flora, jewelry, ceramics, silk with floral ornaments, books on ecology, botany, zoology, photo albums of museum collections, geological rocks.