National Historic Museum, Historical collection museum in central Athens, Greece

The National Historic Museum is a building in central Athens that displays collections covering modern Greek history from 1453 to World War II. The rooms contain artifacts, documents, and artworks that document this period.

The Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece founded the museum in 1882, and its collection was long kept in the National Technical University. In 1932 Eleftherios Venizelos granted the Old Parliament House to the Society, a grant repeated by the Tsaldaris government in 1935. After restoration work, the museum opened in the building on 21 June 1962.

The rooms display traditional Greek regional costumes, historical paintings, manuscripts, and personal items belonging to important figures in Greek history. Walking through these collections, you see how these objects reveal the everyday life and identity of different people across Greece.

The museum occupies the Old Parliament House on Stadiou Street, at Kolokotroni Square. The permanent exhibition follows a perimeter route through the former assembly hall on the raised ground floor; that hall now opens only for official award ceremonies. The Historical and Ethnological Society's archive, library and photographic archive are housed in the same building.

The museum opened in the Old Parliament House on 21 June 1962, after two years of restoration work on the building. The transfer had been arranged decades earlier: Eleftherios Venizelos granted the building to the Historical and Ethnological Society in 1932, and the Tsaldaris government repeated the concession in 1935. The Second World War delayed the move, and the collections were stored at the Archaeological Museum.