Museum of Criminology (Athens)

The Museum of Criminology is a university exhibition space belonging to the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens . The museum records the history of crime in Greece during the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum's main target audience is students related to the Faculty of Medicine, in order to obtain information.

History

The Museum of Criminology was founded in 1932 in accordance with the provisions of Law 5343/1932 (Government Gazette 86/Α΄), Article 297 "On the Organization of the University of Athens".

Its founder was Professor of Forensics Ioannis Georgiadis (1874-1960), who had in his possession various objects with which crimes were committed. Then his successors took over the work with the help of the Police and the Greek Army who enriched the museum with a lot of material. Before World War II, the Museum was housed in a room on Sokratous Street, near Omonoia Square. Later, it was moved to the building on Akadimias and Massalias street, where today the "Kostis Palamas" mortuary of the University of Athens is housed and where it remained for about half a century. In 1974 the Forensic and Toxicology Laboratory was moved to the building of the Forensic and Toxicology Laboratory in the Goudi area and with it the Museum was also moved to a specific area where the exhibits are kept. In 1977, the then director of the Forensic and Toxicology Laboratory, Antonios Koutselinis, personally undertook the preservation, re-exhibition and expansion of the forensic collection.