Weekends are when museums and studios open their workshop tables to families. Kids paint, cook, build and play, often with a parent working beside them, and most sessions are split by age so toddlers and older kids each get their own. Here's what we checked, from Sunday painting at the Museum of Greek Children's Art to child-height cooking classes at Kids Cooking Club.
A game-based art and nature workshop for kindergartners and first graders, built around the world of painter Alekos Fassianos. Kids step into the courtyard of his childhood home, where the mice that burrowed under the old house have hidden his memories, and follow them into the small world of insects and plants. Along the way they pick up the basics of nature and the cycle of life.
A museum of art made by children. Its collection holds more than 10,000 paintings and constructions by kids aged 4 to 14, from drawing competitions, donations and the museum's own workshops, and its exhibitions take on themes such as diversity and racism.
Kids come to make art themselves: workshops led by the museum's artists start from a famous painter, such as Degas or Kusama, and supply every material.
The museum holds Cycladic figurines, ancient Greek and Cypriot art, and a gallery on daily life in antiquity, spread over two buildings joined by a corridor.
Families can rent the Family Kit at the entrance: a box of maps, exhibit copies, story cards and an augmented reality app that puts kids in photos with the largest figurine. Weekend workshops run by age group, from toddlers with a parent to 12-year-olds.
Hellenic Cosmos is the cultural center of the Foundation of the Hellenic World, set in an old industrial complex on Pireos Street. Its landmark is the Tholos, a domed virtual-reality theater with a 350 m² screen that takes audiences from Ancient Olympia and the Agora of Athens to outer space.
Kids can also try VR headsets, watch children's theater at the Theatron, see exhibitions and join weekend workshops.
The Children's Museum of Athens, run by the Hellenic Children's Museum, fills the ground floor of the Athens Conservatoire building with hands-on exhibits. Kids play in a biscuit-themed kitchen, play vet at the Pet Care Clinic, blow bubbles, try math games in Hello Pythagoras!, study maps and practice road safety. A separate playspace is set up for babies and toddlers, and kids can make things to take home.
Honey Nest is a two-floor family space with a playroom of wooden toys in soft pastel colors, a cafe beside it, and a concept store selling wooden toys and gifts from European brands. There are no screens or electronic toys.
Seasonal workshops cover crafts, sensory play for the youngest, art and storytelling, and the space hosts private birthday parties.
Kids Cooking Club has run cooking classes for children since 2006 and calls itself Europe's first cooking school for kids. Groups of up to 8 work in a kitchen built to their height, with induction hobs, safe knives and a chef plus educators.
Kids cook breakfasts, snacks, meals and sweets from fresh ingredients, then taste what they made. The school also runs camps and cooking parties.
Weekends are when museums and studios open their workshop tables to families. Kids paint, cook, build and play, often with a parent working beside them, and most sessions are split by age so toddlers and older kids each get their own. Here's what we checked, from Sunday painting at the Museum of Greek Children's Art to child-height cooking classes at Kids Cooking Club.
A game-based art and nature workshop for kindergartners and first graders, built around the world of painter Alekos Fassianos. Kids step into the courtyard of his childhood home, where the mice that burrowed under the old house have hidden his memories, and follow them into the small world of insects and plants. Along the way they pick up the basics of nature and the cycle of life.
A museum of art made by children. Its collection holds more than 10,000 paintings and constructions by kids aged 4 to 14, from drawing competitions, donations and the museum's own workshops, and its exhibitions take on themes such as diversity and racism.
Kids come to make art themselves: workshops led by the museum's artists start from a famous painter, such as Degas or Kusama, and supply every material.
The museum holds Cycladic figurines, ancient Greek and Cypriot art, and a gallery on daily life in antiquity, spread over two buildings joined by a corridor.
Families can rent the Family Kit at the entrance: a box of maps, exhibit copies, story cards and an augmented reality app that puts kids in photos with the largest figurine. Weekend workshops run by age group, from toddlers with a parent to 12-year-olds.
Hellenic Cosmos is the cultural center of the Foundation of the Hellenic World, set in an old industrial complex on Pireos Street. Its landmark is the Tholos, a domed virtual-reality theater with a 350 m² screen that takes audiences from Ancient Olympia and the Agora of Athens to outer space.
Kids can also try VR headsets, watch children's theater at the Theatron, see exhibitions and join weekend workshops.
The Children's Museum of Athens, run by the Hellenic Children's Museum, fills the ground floor of the Athens Conservatoire building with hands-on exhibits. Kids play in a biscuit-themed kitchen, play vet at the Pet Care Clinic, blow bubbles, try math games in Hello Pythagoras!, study maps and practice road safety. A separate playspace is set up for babies and toddlers, and kids can make things to take home.
Honey Nest is a two-floor family space with a playroom of wooden toys in soft pastel colors, a cafe beside it, and a concept store selling wooden toys and gifts from European brands. There are no screens or electronic toys.
Seasonal workshops cover crafts, sensory play for the youngest, art and storytelling, and the space hosts private birthday parties.
Kids Cooking Club has run cooking classes for children since 2006 and calls itself Europe's first cooking school for kids. Groups of up to 8 work in a kitchen built to their height, with induction hobs, safe knives and a chef plus educators.
Kids cook breakfasts, snacks, meals and sweets from fresh ingredients, then taste what they made. The school also runs camps and cooking parties.
