The Unseen Museum is the well-known exhibition project of the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum that brings to the fore antiquities stored in its vaults, away from the visitor’s eyes.

The Unseen Museum presents “the only Aphrodite of his life”. This is a fragment of a beautiful marble statuette of Aphrodite from the late Hellenistic period, originating in Bursa, Asia Minor. The ancient sculpture was delivered to the National Archaeological Museum by the young curator of antiquities Nikolaos Laskaris, on the eve of the Asia Minor Catastrophe. Ιt remained unidentified in the Museum’s Storerooms for over a century and is now emerging into the public eye for the first time. The new exhibition unit also presents rare photographs of Greek archaeologists and soldiers during their visits to various ancient sites of Anatolia, as well as the manuscript of the hitherto unknown curator of the Department of Antiquities of Smyrna, N. Laskaris. “The only Aphrodite of his life” is presented in the Altar Hall (Hall 34) from Monday, December 9, 2024 to Monday, February 24, 2025.