Ionideios School, Piraeus
The Ionidios School of Piraeus was established in 1847, funded by K. Ionides. Until 1914, it was the only Gymnasium in Piraeus
Museum of Science and Technology, University of Athens
The University of Athens possesses a rich collection of scientific instruments (about 2,000 items). Efforts are made to display most of them in a Museum. Probably this Museum will function in the historical building of the Department of Chemistry, Solonos street in Athens.
http://www.chem.uoa.gr/
National Observatory of Athens - Penteli Station
The Dome of the big Newall refractor of the Penteli Astronomical Station of the Observatory of Athens is now a "Visitors center":
http://www.astro.noa.gr/VisCentre/vis_centre.htm
National Technical University of Athens
January 12, 1837 (December 31, 1836, old style) has been founded in Athens by Royal Decree a Sunday training school for technicians.
Indeed, in 1837, a young Bavarian, the officer in the engineering corps Friedrich R. von Zentner, was entrusted to train on Sundays qualified workers and foremen for building. These men were needed for the transformation of Athens from a village to the capital of the new state, proud of its neo-classical buildings designed by Architects who came from abroad: the Palace, the University, the Archeological Museum, the Observatory etc.
University of Athens - Faculty of Philosophy
Exact sciences departments of the University of Athens belonged to the Faculty of Philosophy until the founding of a Faculty of Physics and mathematics in 1904.
Zarifeios School of Alexandroupolis
The town of Dede-Agats was founded by the Ottoman Empire in 1878 at the western part of Thrace. Soon, a Greek gymnasium has been founded in that town and in 1885 a Greek Girls’ school (Parthenagogion).
After the Balkan wars, the town was conquered by Greece (May 14, 1920) and its name became Alexandroupolis. A college for training elementary-school teachers (Didaskaleion) has been founded in 1923. Its first director was Theodoros Kastanos, from the island of Chios.
