National Glyptotheque, Art gallery in Goudi district of Athens, Greece.
The National Glyptotheque occupies two restored buildings that were once royal stables within the Hellenic Army Park and features indoor galleries plus outdoor sculpture areas. The site includes exhibition spaces spread across green grounds where large-scale artworks are displayed outside.
The National Glyptotheque was established in 2004 as an annex of the National Gallery of Greece, becoming the country's first national sculpture museum. It was installed in two buildings of the former royal stables in the Alsos Stratou (Army Park) at Goudi, on a site of 6,500 m2. Its early temporary exhibitions were a Marino Marini show (June–October 2006) and a Yannoulis Chalepas retrospective (February–September 2007).
The permanent display is organised into sections such as folk sculpture, Heptanesian sculpture, Neoclassical sculpture, and the turn to Paris in the passage from the 19th to the 20th century. A room devoted to Yannoulis Chalepas and sections on modernism, abstraction and foreign artists follow the course of Greek sculpture.
The museum occupies two buildings of the former royal stables in the Alsos Stratou (Army Park) in Goudi, with 6,500 m2 of grounds around them. The indoor galleries and the outdoor sculpture areas are visited on foot, so plan for both. The park setting means much of the collection is seen outdoors.
The grounds were once a military facility before being converted into an art space, and today still show traces of this past use. This blend of military heritage and contemporary art display gives the place its distinctive character.
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