The National Museum of Contemporary has been housed to its temporary home at the Athens Conservatory where it will remain until the completion of the reconstruction of its own premises in the former Fix Brewery on Sygrou street. I personally love the current EMST location, since it’s just a few minutes walk from my house, so I visit them often. This year, the museum celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exhibiton opening on October 13 called “the Politics of Art”. I’m still searching to find out the content of the exhibit, but my initial thoughts when I read about it, and about the symposium they’ll be holding during the show’s run – a symposium described as focusing on the Museum’s own existance, was that perhaps the 10 year quest for their “own” space, the perpetual construction at the Fix Brewery on Sygrou street, were somehow being politically impacted and that the museum has finally, in its frustration with the delays, decided to “go public” with the whole thing. Of course this is just an assumption, I’ve really now idea what the exhibit will really be about – but I visit pretty regularly and they often have interesting, honest art, not all of it just pretty things to look at – but rather thought surprising pieces and exhibits that really make you think. And I like that.
EMST FACTS:
Address:
Vassileos Georgiou Β 17 -19 & Rigillis Street
Athens, 10675
Telephone: 210 92.42.111 – 3,
Fax: 210 92.45.200
e-mail: protocol@emst.gr
EMST HOURS:
Tuesday to Sunday: 11.00 – 19.00
Thursday: 11.00 – 22.00
Monday: Closed
Tickets
Regular: 3€
Reduced – student: 1,5€
Exhibitions Media Lounge, Exhibitions of EVERY MONTH: free
Free Admission:
Holders of the cards: ICOM, CIMAM, AICA
ASFA students
Children under 12 years old
people over 65 years old
people with special needs and their attendant
Thursday: Free admission from 17.00 – 22.00
European Youth Card
Ticket for two exhibitions: 3 €
Ticket for one exhibition: 1,5 €
Accessibility
The front entrance is accessible by ramp. Wheelchairs are available free of charge in the coat check on a first-come, first-served basis.
The three main floors are accessible by elevator. A wheelchair-accessible bathroom is located on the mezzanine.
For more information please call 210 9242111-3
Tours take place every Thursday at 19:00, when the admission is free, and every Sunday at 12.00.
Tours are open to individual visitors as well as organized groups such as cultural societies, clubs, workers groups, etc.
If any groups are interested in attending the tour on a different day, they should notify the Museum in advance about the date and the number of participants (The Education Bureau ,Ms Marina Tsekou, tel. 210 9242111,-12, e-mail: marina.tsekou@emst.gr).
How to get here
By BUS : No 550 (Ethniko Idryma Erevnon stop)
By TROLLEY:No 10 (Ethniko Idryma Erevnon stop)
By METRO: line 3 (EVAGELISMOS station)
From the New Acropolis Museum take the metro and change at Syntagma following the blue line (Evangelismos station)
From the airport follow the blue line (Evangelismos station)