Visit/Review of Mini-Greece Museum

Miniature Museum in Athens, December 2024

The photos you see here are taken for this article.

I visited the Miniature Museum in Athens in the December of 2024.

The museum, as you can see on its website, “promises” that it will show you Greece in one and a half hours, something that it certainly achieves. What it has is a series of miniatures, small-scale models of buildings from the antiquity of Hellenism to this day. Used this term as the exhibits do not only include the geographical area that is now Greece, but it also miniatures from other places, such as Magna Grecia in present-day Italy.

Positive and negative aspects of the experience: There is nothing exactly negative. Only a few comments, which we consider important about whether someone scheduling their visit. When I went in December 2024, many things had not been completed yet. For example, there were construction materials around in a floor of the museum which had exhibits. Also their website had less material than what I saw when I visited: one example Checking their website for the needs of this article, I saw that there is already much more material than during my previous visit. In one case there was a statue of Zeus, which in the visit has that panel behind it, while in the website there was nothing. Obviously they added it after they took the photo.

This is not a problem by any means but it bears the question specially for people living in Athens or visiting often: “Should I go now or wait for more items to be added?”

Looking at their website now, I see that they have painted the front and have added signage indicating that it is a miniature museum, making it easier to find, because I had trouble locating it.

I had spoken to the extremely kind lady at the reception. At that point there was no working Wi-Fi. She actually tried to help me tether my phone because I needed to speak to someone. A really amazing customer service experience. This is the only issue with the museum: precisely because it is still being developed, it already has a lot of material, and it is an amazing experience, but I am sure that if someone visits again and again, they will see more and more things.

I was told that they were considering adding augmented reality, where visitors could enter the buildings have a more immersive experience. It is certainly worth visiting, but what I would recommend is to go, and then go again, if possible, in six months or a year. That is, if you have the opportunity while in Athens, visit multiple times. This is the same thing I do with the Acropolis Museum.

The buildings have amazing details, and we start from ancient Greece and reach modern Greece, for example, the temple of St. Andrew in Patras. Additionally, when the lights are turned off, small lights light up inside the buildings, so you see them as if they were at night. This is an amazing experience and a great idea by those who implemented it.

Monastery at night, with lights switched off: