One week after the completion of the 4 days of activities to celebrate International Museum Day and World Telecommunications Day, the Museum announces the next surprise step!

Yesterday, 23 May, in the courtyard of the Museum, the OTE Group officially announced to the invited journalists the creation of the New Museum, covering an area of over 5,000 square meters in the centre of Athens. Specifically, the New Museum will be completed within the next few years, and will be housed in part of the historic YMA-NYMA (Athens Intercity Hall - New Athens Intercity Hall) building complex, in particular at the YMA, at 85 Patision Street. The YMA is a living part of the history of OTE and the country's telecommunications and started its operation in 1954! All telephone calls of Athens, from and to Greece and abroad, passed through there, while the telephone operators and telegraphers who worked there, managed telegrams and telephotographs that in many cases determined the history of Greece.

The architectural design of the New Museum has been undertaken by the architectural firm Kokkinou - Kourkoulas Architects and Associates, while the museological and museographic study has been undertaken by the architect-museologist Ms. Erato Koutsoudaki. The New Museum will function as a cultural landmark, a reference point for the centre of Athens and a catalyst for the further upgrading of the area. In addition to the permanent and temporary exhibition spaces, it will offer a ground floor multi-purpose space, a shop, restaurant, café and event and education spaces.

The Museum in Kifissia, has completed 34 years of operation and hosts in the two fully renovated floors of the 1,000 sqm municipality exhibition, exhibits from its collections of over 37,000 objects and archival material, of which 90% has been documented and digitized.

Connect to the Museum's digital tools by clicking on the category DISCOVER and choose to virtually tour the Museum through the virtual tour, get to know the Phryktories and the Hydraulic Telegraph of antiquity, the great inventors of electricity and telecommunications, telephone operators, call centers, satellite and wireless communications and one of the first TV studios of the 1960s in the Museum's digital exhibition!

Until our transfer to the New Museum at 85 Patision Street is completed, we are waiting for you in Nea Kifissia, Monday to Friday 10.00-17.00.