The city hosts many museums,
including the Patras Archaeological
Museum the History and Ethnology
Museum, the Folk Art Museum, the
Press Museum and the Technology
Museum, the latter in the campus of
Patras University.
Other cultural institutes are: the
Visual Arts Workshop, the icon
painting school, the Carnival Float
Workshop, the Municipal Library, the
Municipal Gallery, along with many
private art galleries. The
architectural heritage of the city is
dominated by neo-classicism, but
also includes structures from other
periods. Patras is also a pilot city of
the Council of Europe and EU