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Thespis 2002 - XXIX ITI World Congress
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National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum
The Byzantine Museum
War Museum
The Benaki Museum
National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Museum and Study Centre of the Greek Theatre
Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum
Greek Folk Art Museum
The Acropolis Museum
The Epigraphical Museum
Centre for the Acropolis Studies
Numismatic Museum
Vorres Museum
National Historical Museum - Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece
The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation Museum of Cycladic Art
The Goulandris Museum of Natural History
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| National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum |
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The National Art Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum,
the most important institution in Greece devoted to the subject
of the history of Greek and Western European art, has been in operation,
in its present form, since 1976. The actual founding of the institution
dates back to 1900, when the relevant decree was published and the duties
of curator were undertaken by George Iakovides (1900-1918).
Already, however, in 1834, within the framework of the new social
organization - on Western European lines - of the newly-born Greek state,
the decree "On Technological Collections" provided for the founding, in Athens,
of a Museum of paintings and engravings. The Art Gallery gives priority to the
presentation of the Greek art of the period after the War of Independence.
The collection of the Museum includes paintings by Caravaggio, Andrea Pavia,
Stefano Tzangarolo, Ghyzis, Lytras, Volanakis, etc.
Today, the National Gallery possesses a collection of 9.500 paintings, sculptures and engravings
as well as miniatures and furniture. Apart from the important donations, the art treasures
of the gallery were enriched by purchases of important works, such as the "Concert of the
Angels" by Domenicos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), Lorenzo Veneziano's "Crucifixion" and other.
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| Address: 1, Mihalakopoulou str. & 52, Vasileos Konstantinou, Athens |
| Tel.: +30-10 7235857, 7235937-8 |
| Visiting hours:[From 1 July to 31 October] - Daily: 08.00 - 19.00, Monday closed |
| Tickets: � 6 |
| Evangelismos Metro Station |
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http://www.culture.gr/2/21/214/21406m/e21406m.html |
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| The Byzantine Museum |
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The Byzantine Museum was founded in 1914. It has been housed in the "Ilisia" mansion,
which belonged to the Duchess of Placentia and was built in 1848 by the architect Stamatis Kleanthes.
It was transformed into a museum by the architect Aristotle Zachos. Today an addition is being made and
a large extension with basement and buildings in part above ground. The architectural design is by Manos
Perrakis.
The collections of the Byzantine Museum show the course of Greek art from the 4th to the 19th century.
They comprise sculptural works, paintings and small works of all sorts. These works represent the artistic
production of the Greek area, and other regions both central and peripheral of the Byzantine empire and
subsequently of Hellenism on into post-Byzantine times.
The Museum collections include the following: Byzantine and post-Byzantine Ikons, Sculpture,
Manuscripts, Wall paintings, Mosaics, Small objects (cloth, coins, pottery, metal objects, silver),
Wood carvings, Patterns (anthibola), bronze engravings, lithographs, a collection of old prints
(incunabula) and a collection of copies of paintings.
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| War Museum |
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The Museum was inaugurated in 1975. Its aim and mission is the exhibition of war mementoes,
the documentation and study of war history as well as the presentation of the struggles for freedom
of the Greek nation from ancient times to the present day.
The permanent exhibition area of the Museum includes themes from the Stone Age and the Early Bronze
Age, Mycenaean era, the prehistory of Greece, the Byzantine period, the period of Frankish rule,
the Greek War of Independence, the new Greek State, the 1912-1913 Balkan Wars, the Balkan Wars and
the First World War, the historic period of the Greco-Italian War of 1941-1941 and the German invasion.
There is also an important and well-organized library in the Museum.
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| The Benaki Museum |
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Antonis Benakis, scion of one of the leading families of the Greek Diaspora, was born in Alexandria in 1873. Benakis began his career as a collector in Alexandria, gradually reaching the decision to donate his collections to the Greek state, an idea that became reality after he settled permanently in Athens in 1926.
The Benaki Museum ranks among the great benefactions that have enriched the material assets of the Greek state. At the same time, it is the oldest museum in Greece, which functions as a Foundation under Private Law.
This group of collections comprises many distinct categories totalling more than 30.000 items illustrating the character of the Greek world through a spectacular historical panorama: from antiquity and the age of Roman domination to the medieval Byzantine period, from the fall of Constantinople (1453) and the centuries of Frankish and Ottoman occupation to the outbreak of the struggle for independence in 1821, and from the formation of the modern state of Greece (1830) down to 1922, the year in which the Asia Minor disaster took place.
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| Address: 1, Koumbari str & Vas. Sofias av, Athens |
| Tel.: +30-10 3671000 |
| Visiting hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 9:00 - 17:00, Thursday: 9:00 - 24:00
Sunday: 9:00 - 15:00, Tuesday: closed
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| Tickets: � 6 |
| Syntagma Metro Station |
| http://www.benaki.gr |
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| National Archaeological Museum of Athens |
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It is the most important archaeological museum in Greece and one of the richest in the world concerning ancient Greek art. Its collections are representative of all the cultures that flourished in Greece.
The construction of the museum was begun in 1866 and completed in 1889. The building of the museum was originally designed by the architect Ludwig Lange but his plans were partially modified by Panages Kalkos and later, by Harmodios Vlachos and Ernst Ziller.
The museum contains collections of Prehistoric items, Sculpture, Pottery and Minor art, Bronzes and Egyptian Art.
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| Museum and Study / Centre of the Greek Theatre |
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The Museum was founded in 1938 by the historian of the Greek Theatre, Yiannis Sideris. He was succeeded in 1976 by the theatrical writer Manolis Kores.
In the Museum's rooms are exhibited memorabilia of theatrical life, stage costumes and props, photographs, models of stage settings, personal belongings of leading figures of the theatre, as well as posters and programmes.
The library includes about 25,000 volumes on the theatre, from Greek and foreign bibliography. The theatrical archives include 18th-century manuscripts, programmes and posters of theatre companies from the 19th century on.
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| Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum |
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The museum was founded in 1976, after the private collection of Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos was donated to the Greek state.
The Neoclassical building on the north slope of the Acropolis was erected in 1864 and was originally used as the mansion of the Michaleas family.
In the 1960's-70's the building was purchased by the Greek state and restored to permanently house the collection of antiquities from Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and post-Byzantine period.
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| Greek Folk Art Museum |
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The Museum of Greek Folk Art belongs to the state and comes under the Ministry of Culture. It was founded in 1918 under the name "Museum of Greek Handicrafts" and was housed in the Tzami.
In 1923 it was renamed the "National Museum of Decorative Arts"; it was given its present name in 1959. Anna Apostolaki was the director of the Museum of Greek Folk Art from1935 to 1953. From 1956 until 1980 it was under the direction of Popi Zora.
The Museum owns rich collections of objects representing all branches of folk art: Embroidery, Weaving, Costumes, Masquerades, Shadow Theatre, Silver Work, Metalwork, Pottery, Woodcarving, Folk Painting (works of Theophilos Hatzimichail), Stonecarving,
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| The Acropolis Museum |
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It is one of the most important museums in the world. It temporarily houses masterpieces of the ancient Greek civilization, dedicated to the most important of the Athenian sanctuaries, the "temenos" of Athena Parthenos. The museum was designed by the architect Panages Kalkos and constructed between 1865 and 1874. In the 1950's it was extended towards the east and the exhibition was rearranged by the archaeologist I. Meliades.
The museum contains only the stone sculptures from the monuments of the Acropolis and from the excavations on the site. Since the beginning of the excavations, the vases and the bronzes have been kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens while the inscriptions are housed in the Epigraphical Museum.
The collections of the museum include: sculptural offerings of the Archaic period, pediments of temples dated to the Archaic period, archaic Horsemen, sculptures of the "Severe" style, pediments and metopes from the Parthenon, the Parthenon frieze, the Erechtheion frieze, parapets of the Athena Nike temple, frieze of the Athena Nike temple, the Caryatids and clay figurines and vases from the sanctuary of the Nymphs.
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| Address: - |
| Tel.: +30-10 3214172, 3236665, 9238724 |
| Visiting hours: winter opening hours: Monday: 10.30-17.00, Tuesday-Sunday: 08.00-Sunset
Summer opening hours: Monday: 12.00-19.00, Tuesday-Sunday: 08.00-19.00
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| Tickets: � 5 |
| Acropolis Metro Station |
| http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21101m/e211am01.html |
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| The Epigraphical Museum |
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The Epigraphical Museum was founded in 1885 and it was established in the ground floor of the building of the National Archaeological Museum, which was constructed between 1866 and 1889, according to architectural plans by L.Lange and E.Ziller.
It was renovated and extended in six new rooms, during the years 1953-1960, according to plans of the architect P.Karantinos.
It comprises a collection of Attic inscriptions and also a collection of inscriptions from other districts of Greece.
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| Centre for the Acropolis Studies |
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The building was constructed in 1836 by the Bavarian engineer Von Weiler. In 1978 it was offered to the Ministry of Culture and in 1985-87 was repaired in order to serve all its present functions.
The collections of the museum include: Collection of casts of the Pathenon sculptures, Exhibits concerning the Erechtheion ,
The exhibition "Acropolis Conservation, Restoration and Research" and an Exhibition of clay-tiled roofs of the Acropolis monuments.
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| Numismatic Museum |
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The Numismatic Museum of Athens, with a history going back to 1829, is one of the few of its kind in the world and the only such museum in the Balkans. It provides continuous educational support for Hellenism in terms of numismatics, history and art history.
The strength of the collection lies in some six hundred thousand coins covering the ancient Greek world, the Roman and Byzantine periods, western Mediaeval times and modern times, "hoards" (closed numismatic groups), weights, lead stamps, medals and precious stones. About ten thousand volumes devoted to the special field of numismatics, to history, to seals and to archaeology, as well as offprint, fascicles, and general publications cover the archaeological material.
The Iliou Melathron, (The Palace of Ilion), the house of Heinrich Schliemann, which houses the Numismatic Museum, is a work of the German architect Ernst Ziller
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| Vorres Museum |
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The Vorres Museum consists of a complex of buildings, gardens and courtyards, covering an area of approximately 80 arces. Its collections, which number over 6,000 items, span a period of 4,000 years of Greek history and art.
The Museum is divided into two main sections. The first section is a museum of Modern Greek art, which presents important works of art and sculpture created by Greek artists of the second half of the 20th century. The second section is called the "Pyrghi" (or tower) and is composed of a complex of two traditional rural houses, the remains of a stable and an old wine-press dating from the end of the period of Ottoman rule, in the early 19th century.
Among the traditional exhibits there are also some more rare samples of furniture crafted in Italy, France and Spain, in the 18th and 19th centuries and which belonged to the Vorres family.
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| National Historical Museum - Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece |
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The National Historical Museum belongs to the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece (HESG), which was founded in 1882 for the purpose of collecting, saving and presenting relics and documentary evidence relating to modern Greek history.
The National Historical Museum is also a research centre for Modern Greek History. The museum is housed in the Old Parliament Building, which was founded in 1835 by Queen Amalia.
The permanent exhibition of the Museum, presents the historical progress of Neo-Hellenism from the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans (1453), up to and including the Greco-Italian War of 1940.
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| The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation Museum of Cycladic Art |
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The Museum of Cycladic Art was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nicholas and Aikaterini Goulandris.
The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation, to which Dolly Goulandris donated the collection in 1985, is dedicated to the study and promotion of Aegean Studies, and Cycladic culture in particular.
The exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art includes the Cycladic Collection, the Ancient Greek Art Collection and the Stathatos House.
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| Address: 4, Neophytou Douka Str., Athens, (New Wing - The Stathatos House: Vassilissis Sophias & 1 Herodotou Str.) |
| Tel.: +30-10 7228321-3 |
| Visiting hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 10:00-16:00
Sunday: 10:00 - 15:00, Tuesday, Saturday: Closed.
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| Tickets: � 3 |
| Syntagma Metro Station |
| http://www.culture.gr/4/42/421/42102/42102b/e42102b1.html |
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| The Goulandris Museum of Natural History |
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The Goulandris Museum of Natural History was founded in 1965 in order to promote interest in the natural sciences, to raise the awareness of the public, in general, and in particular to call its attention to the need to protect Greece's natural wildlife habitats and species in the danger of extinction.
The Museum includes large collections of insects, mammals, birds, reptiles, shells, rocks, minerals and fossils, from the rich natural wildlife of the Greek territory. The botanical collections number over 200.000 species of plants, among which there are 145 newly-discovered ones, which have been recorded thanks to the Museum's research.
In the Museum's laboratories, scientific research is being carried out in the areas of ecology, botany, zoology, geology, palaeontology and biotechnology.
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