Books of Greece

Athens / Greece

Located at Dionysiou Areopagitou 15 in Athens, the Acropolis Museum runs a ground-floor gift store and a second-floor bookstore stocked with exhibit-inspired jewelry, ceramics, and titles on Athenian history. Its standout offering is a line of precise hand-cast exhibit replicas produced in the museum's own workshops by the conservators who care for the originals.

Best for Museum shop, replicas, jewelry

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Solonos 105, Athens

Greek mountain, island and hiking maps — topographic sheets for walking the country. What hikers and climbers actually carry.

Best for Topographic maps of Greek mountains and islands for hikers and climbers

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Athens / Greece

Birdman's record store on Skoufou is a wood-panelled shrine to vinyl, inspired by Tokyo listening bars, where visitors browse new and rare releases, collector's items and art books while DJs play day and night. Open every day from early afternoon to midnight, it sits on the same downtown Athens alley as the group's Birdman and Ekiben kitchens.

Best for Record-store, vinyl, listening-bar

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Athens / Greece

The Herakleidon Museum in Athens's Thissio district houses a shop just off its exhibition halls dedicated to ancient Greek technology and art, open the same hours as the museum, Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Located at 16 Herakleidon Street, the museum lists the shop directly among its visitor information alongside admission and contact details.

Best for Museum-shop, ancient-greek-technology, books, gifts

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Monastiraki, Athens

An independent art, architecture and visual-culture bookshop and publishing space. Established 2021.

Best for Art, architecture, and visual-culture books plus its own publishing space

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Athens / Greece

On the ground floor of the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum near the Acropolis, the ILJMuseum Shop sells fine and artistic jewelry, decorative objects, and souvenirs alongside scholarly and general-interest art publications. The shop also takes custom orders for jewelry and objects in production, plus postcards and posters available in person or by mail order.

Best for Jewelry, fine-art, souvenirs, books

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Athens / Greece

Located on the first floor of the Iliou Melathron, the Numismatic Museum's shop sells reproduction ancient Greek coins and jewelry alongside cards, notebooks, toys, and numismatics publications. It keeps the museum's own opening hours and is reachable directly through its store manager for inquiries.

Best for Coins, jewelry, museum shop, books

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Athens / Greece

In the ground-floor foyer of Onassis Stegi at 107-109 Syngrou Avenue, the Onassis Shop sells numbered art prints, limited-edition vinyl and CDs, and publications tied to the venue's own productions.

Best for Art prints, vinyl records, books, design objects

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Historic Centre, Athens

A design shop selling furniture, lighting, tabletop objects, books, and accessories selected from independent makers. George Karras and Angela Koutroulaki opened the shop in 2014.

Best for Furniture, lighting, and tabletop objects from independent makers

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Athens / Greece

Founded in Athens in 2002 by Stathis Panagoulis and George Vamvakidis, The Breeder gallery operates out of a converted 1970s ice-cream factory at 45 Iasonos Street, open Tuesday through Saturday. Its online shop sells original works, drawings, and limited editions by gallery artists like Aristeidis Lappas and Olga Migliaressi Phoca alongside catalogues, artist books, and tote bags.

Best for Contemporary art, editions, artist books

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Skalani, Heraklion

A family olive farm in the village of Skalani above Heraklion, pressing Koroneiki and Tsounati fruit into early-harvest and single-origin extra virgin oils. Alongside the oils they bottle petimezi grape-must syrup and cure Kalamon and throumba olives, and open the grove for booked farm visits.

Best for Cretan extra virgin olive oil and farm visits

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Oia, Santorini

Atlantis Books occupies a cave-like space near the caldera in Oia, filled with hand-painted decor and a curated multilingual selection. The independent shop is known as much for its literary events as for its books.

Best for Independent bookshop, literary gifts and events

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