State Museum of Contemporary Arts

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This article is about the State Museum of Contemporary Arts, in Thessaloniki. For other Museums named Museum of Contemporary Art, see Museum of Contemporary Art.

The State Museum of Contemporary Arts (Κρατικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης) is a state museum based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Its foundation started in 1997, by the opportunity of Thessaloniki's position as European Capital of Culture. Its function started when the then Greek Minister of Culture, Evangelos Venizelos, passed a law in the Greek Parliament regarding the foundation of a new museum. The first director of the SMCA was the Aristotle University Professor Miltiadis Papanikolaou, who remained in the position until 2006.

In 2000, the Museum acquired part of the famous Costakis Collection which contains around 1,275 works of art consisting of paintings, sculptures, drawings and constructions.