The Katakouzenos House Museum is opening its doors to celebrate the Athens City Festival

The Katakouzenos House Museum project deals with the revival of an historical Athenian house from a residential venue to a community-oriented and education-based institution, following the principles and expanding the possibilities of house museums. The former owners of the house, Angelos and Leto Katakouzenos, belonged to the intellectual elite of their times, the so-called “1930s generation,” and functioned as cultural ambassadors of their country abroad and arbiters of international tendencies to Hellas. The Katakouzenos House Museum belongs to a specific group of museums, the house museums.

The Katakouzenos house functioned since 1960 as a literary salon; its rooms have hosted many visitors of international fame, mainly artists but also writers and poets; it also contains a representative collection of works by the most important artists of the so-called Hellenic “1930s generation”, and by many international artists, too.

Since year 2008, the house of Angelos & Leto Katakouzenos has opened again its doors to the public thanks to the people who believed in its magic tale, and all of you who keep visiting it. We sincerely hope that the voyage it offers to its visitors is worthy of its history.