Hellenic Motor Museum Athens

Hellenic Motor Museum Athens: 110-plus cars above a mall, a spiral ramp of wheels, and the passes that include it

Hellenic Motor Museum Athens tickets currently have no online partner to book through: the GetYourGuide entrance ticket that used to cover this museum has gone, its product page now redirects to GetYourGuide's generic homepage, and the museum's own GetYourGuide location listing shows no bookable product either. Several of the Athens city passes carry the museum among their listed attractions, which is the way to have it covered before you arrive. What is inside for that money has not moved: more than 110 vehicles from the 19th and 20th centuries across three exhibition floors, a spiral ramp lined with 72 wheel exhibits, and a workshop reconstruction, three minutes' walk from the National Archaeological Museum.

This page sets out the reduced categories, the museum's own guided-tour add-on, the verified opening hours for weekdays and weekends, how to reach the top floors of the Capitol Mall from Victoria metro, the cars and exhibits the museum itself names, and how to pair the visit with the National Archaeological Museum next door. The short version: bring proof if you qualify for the 10 euro reduced rate, and go in the morning on a weekday, because the doors shut at 17:00 with last admission at 16:30.

Guided tour or plain ticket?

There is no online ticket to weigh against a guided tour, because neither Headout nor GetYourGuide currently sells one for the Hellenic Motor Museum. Headout has no standalone product for it at all, and the GetYourGuide entrance ticket that once covered it is no longer live. The choice is between general admission on its own and general admission plus the museum's own guided tour, added on arrival.

For most visitors the plain ticket does the job. Standard admission already comes with an audio-visual guide at no extra cost, so you have a narration to follow at your own pace without paying for the guided option. The guided add-on suits a group who wants a person rather than a screen, or anyone visiting with children who respond better to a live guide than headphones. Either way it is a decision you can make on arrival, and the audio-visual guide means the plain ticket is never the poorer visit.

The one thing worth planning for is the reduced rate. Children aged 6 to 12, students, seniors over 65 and groups of ten or more pay 10 euros instead of 12, checked against ID on arrival. Several of the Athens city passes carry the museum as one of their listed attractions, which is the route worth looking at if it is one stop of several.

Tickets and prices

Prices below come from the museum's own price list, checked most recently on 11 September 2026.

The free-day question is short. This is a private museum inside a commercial building, not a Ministry of Culture site, so the Ministry's free winter Sundays and national-holiday openings do not apply here. The only free day all year is 18 May, International Museum Day. Outside that date, the free categories in the table are verified against proof on arrival: a student card, an ID showing age, an ICOM card, or evidence of disability.

very few readers of this page. There is no published family or multi-visit ticket, so a family of four at full price pays for four separate admissions, mixing in the reduced rate wherever a child, student or senior in the group qualifies.

Opening hours and best time to visit

Hellenic Motor Museum Athens is open Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 17:00 and Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00, with last admission 30 minutes before closing: 16:30 on weekdays, 17:30 at the weekend. The museum's own hours page lists all seven days and names no weekly closed day. Some third-party listings claim a closed weekday. The museum's own site does not, so if a particular date matters to you, check its hours page before you go.

The constraint to plan around is not a closed day but the short weekday afternoon. A 17:00 close with 16:30 last admission is early for a museum in the centre of Athens, and it catches visitors who spend the morning at the Acropolis, take a long lunch, and set off north at 15:30. On weekdays treat the museum as a morning or early-afternoon stop. The weekend hours start an hour later and run an hour longer, which makes a Saturday or Sunday afternoon a better fit if the visit follows something else.

Closures are limited to public holidays: 1 January, 6 January, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, 1 May, 15 August and 25 December. Every other day of the year it opens on its published hours.

How long to allow is not something the museum publishes, and there is no partner review data to estimate from either, so treat any figure here as our own cautious estimate rather than a stated fact. With more than 110 vehicles across three floors, the wheel exhibits along the ramp and the workshop, most visitors will want a good part of a morning. The one fixed rule is the last-admission time, so arrive with time in hand rather than at 16:25 on a Tuesday.

Getting there

Hellenic Motor Museum Athens is at Ioulianou 33-35 and 3rd Septemvriou 74-78, on the top floors of the Capitol Mall at the corner of the two streets. It is a private museum inside a commercial building, so do not look for a museum facade: you are heading for a mall entrance and then up. The building has a car park on four levels with accessible spaces, which the museum lists among its facilities, making this one of the few Athens museums where driving is a realistic option.

By metro, Victoria station on Line 1, the green line, is about 200 metres from the door. From Syntagma take Line 3 to Monastiraki, change to Line 1 towards Eirini or Kifissia, and get off at Victoria. The museum gives the same route from the airport. Buses 608 and 622 stop at Mouseio, about 350 metres away, and buses 2, 4, 5 and 11 at Polytechneio, about 400 metres. On foot from Syntagma Square it is roughly 1.8 kilometres, about 22 to 25 minutes by our own map estimate. From the Acropolis about 2.3 kilometres and closer to half an hour. Those two figures are estimates, not the museum's own.

The neighbour that matters is the National Archaeological Museum, three minutes on foot. The museum's own site describes itself as sitting a few minutes away. Our National Archaeological Museum tickets page covers that museum in full, and the two make a natural pairing for a day at this end of town. The Numismatic Museum is about 21 minutes on foot, and the Museum of Cycladic Art and the Benaki Museum about 25 minutes each, which puts the museums around Kolonaki within reach for the afternoon if you would rather walk than ride.

What to see: highlights

Hellenic Motor Museum Athens shows more than 110 vehicles from the 19th and 20th centuries on a rotating basis, across three exhibition floors and 3,000 square metres inside a 30,000 square metre building. The exhibits below are the ones the museum itself names on its site. Anything you may have read elsewhere about a simulator or the total size of the collection in storage is not confirmed by the museum and is left out here.

• Seven eras of the car. The permanent collection is arranged by period: Antique up to 1904, Veteran 1905-1919, Vintage 1920-1930, Post Vintage 1931-1945, Classic 1946-1964, Post Classic 1965-1974 and Modern 1975-1999. Walking it in order is the simplest way to watch a century of design change without reading a label.
• Makers that no longer exist. Avion Voisin, Adler, Allard, Packard, Facel Vega, Delage, Delahaye, Iso, Dino, Lagonda, Stanguelini, Siata, OSCA, Jensen, Healey, Frazer Nash and Offenhauser all appear in the museum's list of marques. For anyone who knows cars this is the reason to come. For anyone who does not, these are the shapes you have never seen on a road.
• The names everyone knows. Bugatti, Ferrari, Maserati, Aston Martin, Lotus, Bristol, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Mercedes, Porsche, BMW, Alpine and Borgward are the active marques the museum lists alongside the defunct ones.
• The spiral ramp and the history of the wheel. A ramp runs from the ground floor to the fourth, and along it sit 72 wheel exhibits tracing the wheel from its beginnings to the car. It is the route up, so you see it whether or not you planned to.
• The old car workshop. A period workshop with its fittings, one of the highlights the museum names alongside the cars and the wheel exhibits.
• The founder's first cars. Theodore N. Charagionis (1948-2023) began collecting in 1977 with a Maserati Mistral, a Rolls-Royce Wraith, two Jaguar E-types, two Lancia Appia Zagato, two Austin Healey 3000s and three Dinos, one of them a Ferrari Dino. The museum credits his late wife Joanna as crucial to its realisation, and states its purpose as automotive technology, design and innovation, with road-safety education programmes for younger visitors.

Tips before you go

Start with the practical rules the museum publishes. All public areas are wheelchair accessible, and the car park has accessible spaces, which makes this one of the easier Athens museums for a visitor with limited mobility. Visitors are asked to avoid bringing large bags and luggage into the museum to avoid delays, and the facilities page lists no lockers, so leave the suitcase at the hotel. Photography for personal use is allowed in all exhibition areas, but tripods and lighting equipment are not. Mobile phones are fine, and there is free WiFi.

Facilities are on level 4: a gift shop and a baby care area. Pets are allowed subject to the museum's hygiene rules. The official facilities page does not mention a cafe or restaurant, so do not plan on lunch inside. The museum does not publish a stroller policy either, so families with a buggy should ask on arrival or check the museum's site first.

Since there is no ticket to bring, the only thing to carry is proof if anyone in your party qualifies for the 10 euro rate or for free entry: a student card, an ID showing age, an ICOM card. A simple plan for a weekday: Victoria metro for 10:00 when the doors open, the ramp and the three floors with the audio guide, then the three-minute walk to the National Archaeological Museum for the rest of the day and Line 1 from Victoria for the trip back. At the weekend the motor museum works as the afternoon stop instead, since it stays open until 18:00 on Saturday and Sunday with last admission at 17:30.

How to book, in four steps

1. Reduced entry goes to children aged 6 to 12, students, seniors over 65 and groups of ten or more, verified against ID on arrival.
2. Decide on the guided tour there and then. Standard admission already includes an audio-visual guide. Add the museum's own guided tour on arrival if you would rather follow a person than a headset.
3. Bring proof for the reduced rate. Children 6 to 12, students, seniors over 65 and groups of ten or more pay 10 euros with ID or a card showing eligibility. Under-fives are free and need nothing.
4. Pick a day that fits the hours, then pair it with the neighbour. Weekdays 10:00-17:00 with last admission 16:30, weekends 11:00-18:00 with last admission 17:30. The National Archaeological Museum is three minutes on foot and Victoria metro 200 metres away, so the whole day sits within a few hundred metres.

Nearby and combinations

There is no confirmed pass to point to here either. Headout has never sold a standalone product for this museum, and while two GetYourGuide passes listed it as a selectable attraction as of 11 September 2026, that was before the standalone ticket went offline, so we cannot confirm today whether those passes still include it. The museum is a small addition either way, so let the Acropolis and the big museums decide whether a pass is worth it.

For a family, the other Athens museum built for an afternoon away from antiquities is the Museum of Illusions in Monastiraki. Our Museum of Illusions tickets page covers it, and the two sit on the same green line, Monastiraki and Victoria both on Line 1, so a day that takes in both needs no metro change between them. The motor museum is the longer visit and the earlier closer, so put it first.

For where this fits among the city's collections, our Best museums in Athens guide ranks them and suggests which pair well in a day. Hellenic Motor Museum Athens is not on that list for its art or its antiquities, but it earns its place here for a plain reason: it is the one museum in the city where a child, a parent and a grandparent will all find a car they remember or wish they had, three minutes from the biggest archaeological collection in Greece, for 12 euros.