Averoff Gallery, Art museum in Metsovo, Greece
The Averoff Gallery is an art museum in Metsovo that houses more than 700 artworks by Greek artists spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection brings together paintings, drawings, sculptures, and engravings that reflect different moments in modern Greek artistic development.
The museum was founded by Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza and opened in 1988 as a center for displaying Greek art in the region. An expansion in 1994 added a new wing to the building, allowing the institution to present its growing collection more fully.
The permanent exhibition features works from notable Greek painters including Gyzis, Tsokos, Doukas, Rallis, Lytras, Volanakis, and Iakovidis, representing Greek artistic movements.
The gallery occupies a modern three-storey building; the 1994 extension added a library, a projection room, an open-air café, a shop with the gallery's publications and gifts, a children's workshop space and an atrium used for summer events and exhibitions. Temporary exhibitions change in theme and dates, so ask staff which are running during your visit.
The gallery's core is the private collection of Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza (1910–1990), a politician and writer from Metsovo who gathered what is described as one of the fullest sets of 19th- and 20th-century Greek art. In 1988 he donated both the works and the building to a foundation bearing his name, today directed by his daughter Tatiana Averoff-Ioannou.
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