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The Classic Car Museum and its founder, collector Mr. G. Chryssanthakopoulos, welcome their visitors and invite them to a unique experience, a captivating travel in time.
PHAETHON Technological Museum was founded in 2004 and is managed by a four member Administrative Council.
The Museum’s newly built facilities are situated on the 32nd km of the Athens – Lamia National Road towards Markopoulo, just half an hour’s drive from the centre of Athens, in a modern 7500 sq.m building in a 100 acre estate.
The visitors are provided with comfortable car parking, a bar, a projection hall and a boutique.

PHAETHON Museum includes 5 units:
1Classic Car Museum.
2Watch Museum.
3Museum of Physics, Electronics and Telecommunications.
4Speedway combined with a Thematic Park for Traffic Education.
5Outdoor exhibition section with Defence Material.

PHAETHON Technological Museum is a unique space of particular culture, design finesse and unconventional aesthetics, capable of hosting your events with unprecedented success!
The activities and infrastructure of the Museum are described on the attached form.
Among the Museum’s current objectives is to gain wider publicity and attract more visitors, especially among the younger generations who are less familiar with the Classic Car and are offered a Quality opportunity to become acquainted with its Culture.
Medium term objectives of the Museum include the extension of its buildings and collections as well as the creation of educational facilities aimed at engineering students and graduates in the fields of: Design and Manufacture of Innovative Applications for the Production of Environmental Protection Systems, Energy Saving, and Evolution of the Hybrid Car of the Future.
Current investment has reached €25 million while several extensions scheduled by the Museum’s Planning and Investment Programme are under way.
PHAETHON Museum needs the support of the State and for that reason it aims to collaborate with the relevant institutions (Ministry of Culture, etc).
PHAETHON Museum is open to the public daily Monday to Sunday between 09:00 and 15.00. Tel: (+30)22950 39261‐2,
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Tickets: Adults €10, Students €7, Children and Seniors €5. The Museum is equipped with a multi‐language automated tour guide system. Conducted tours can be arranged for groups of 20 or more.

CROSS THE 20TH CENTURY...

Welcome to PHAETHON Technological Museum
Enjoy your tour through the Museum’s site, in a state‐of‐the‐art, 7500 sq.m building situated on an estate of over 100 acres of land encompassing 100 years of history. Indulge in modern comfort and relax in the specially designed projection halls and the unique Museum Boutique.
PHAETHON Technological Museum, founded in 2004, is characterized by particular culture, design finesse and original aesthetics. A place where old and new harmonically integrate, as you tour through the Museum halls, aided by the Digital 6 Language Automated Tour Guide, informing you about the history, performance and specifications of each exhibit.
PHAETHON Museum is targeted to all age groups and particularly the young who are not familiar with the Classic Car and its history since the late 19th century.
Cultural and other activities of the Museum include:

‐Classic Car Races
‐Classic Car Promotional Happenings
‐Loan Library for the Members of the Museum
‐Social Happenings for the Friends and Members of the Museum

RIDING...

Automobile philosophy
“The automobile is a work of art; it is sculpture, architecture, it is design and technology. The automobile is alive!”
The difference between classic cars and other collectibles and works of art is that they are part of our everyday life.
The automobile is the only transport designed to take you from your doorstep and bring you back to it.
The automobile is made up of hundreds of different parts and accessories. Each one of these parts is, in itself, a perfectly designed and integrated work of art.
Take the wheels, for example! They all have to be round. But for the past 110 years designers have been continuously coming up with new shapes and innovations which, although distinct from each other, always serve the same purpose!

...THE CLASSIC CAR!

Start your engine and drive back to 1912!
Take a tour in the Classic Car halls of PHAETHON Technological Museum and enjoy the outstanding collection of its founder, Mr G. Chryssanthakopoulos, which has received multiple awards and distinctions. The “route” starts in 1912 with the museum’s oldest exhibit and reaches today with the cars of the millennium.
Through this journey you will have the opportunity to witness how in the passage of time the aesthetic and functional approach in the design and production of automobiles has changed in the past century.
One of the peculiarities of early classic car production was that they were almost entirely hand‐made, in most part using wood. As a result, the automobile aesthetics of the time were closer to the luxury and finish of furniture, both in the car’s inside an outside, than to what is familiar to us nowadays.
Without a doubt, the classic car, a creation of another era, of different perceptions and aesthetic values, intensely releases its own distinct aura and personality.
All the cars in the collection are authentic and in excellent condition, frequently participating in Antique Rallies, Contests and other happenings in Greece and abroad.

... ON A SINGLE JOURNEY!

‐Time travel begins!
At the PHAETHON Technological Museum you can see the history of technology and automobiles come alive through the following collections:
‐Classic Car Museum ‐Watch Museum ‐Museum of Physics, Electronics and Telecommunications.
The museum includes fully equipped technical facilities for the restoration and maintenance of its exhibits.
‐The future!
Current projects of the museum include:
‐Extension of its facilities with the construction of a new 10000 sq.m building. ‐Construction of a 3D planetarium for the projection of educational and other material related to the museum’s activities. ‐Construction of high standard educational facilities for engineering graduates and provision of scholarships. ‐Participation in Research Projects related to the museum’s core activities.

Just half an hour’s drive from the centre of Athens, at the 32nd Km of the Athens – Lamia National Road, towards Markopoulo Oropos, PHAETHON Technological Museum is situated in a 7500 sq.m building, in a 100 acre estate. The museum’s facilities offer comfortable car parking, a bar, projection hall, Boutique etc.
The Museum is open daily Monday to Sunday between 09:00 and 14:30.