Frissiras Museum

The Frissiras Museum in Athens' Old Town district of Plaka is a private, nonprofit institution dedicated to contemporary painting. Founded by the lawyer Vlassis Frissiras, who has been collecting art since the late 1970s, it houses a collection of around four thousand works by Greek and European artists. The exhibitions focus on the depiction of the human figure and body through figurative painting and sculpture. Because the museum building is relatively small, the artworks are not on permanent display but are shown in rotating temporary exhibitions. The museum officially opened in 2000 and is still run by the Frissiras family today.