Athens - King Otto Museum

The King Otto Museum is now the new Museum of Athens. It occupies the modest mansion, built in 1834, in which King Otto and Queen Amalia resided from 1836 until 1842, when they moved into the newly built palace in Syntagma Square.

The last descendant of the original builder (Stamatios Vouros), Lambros Evtaxias, had it restored to its original form by the architect Jannis Travlos, using the plans of its original German architects, Lüders and Hoffer, and made it available to house the museum. On the ground floor visitors can see the old kitchen. On the next floor are the apartments used by the royal couple, with their Empire and Biedermeier furniture - the Queen's room, the drawing-room, the King's study, the audience chamber, the room of the gentleman-in-waiting, the dining-room.

In addition to numerous mementos and pictures of King Otto's time (1815-67, reigned 1833-62), including loans from the Bavarian State Collections, the museum contains an interesting model of Athens in 1842, on a scale of 1:1,000. Various views of the city and some architectural drawings complete the collection.