DURATION: November 13, 2024 – April 27, 2025 BENAKI MUSEUM OF GREEK CULTURE On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture inaugurated the exhibition “Art in Gold: Jewelry in the Hellenistic Period.” The exhibition is part of the project “The Collections of the Benaki Museum and Contemporary […]
The 18th century, witnessed a reversal in the city’s fortunes as its council leaders and great thinkers of the Enlightenment restyled Edinburgh as ‘the Athens of the North’. As Athens had been a center for ancient learning, New Town Edinburgh now flaunted its credentials as a world leader for academic discipline, reasoning and discovery.
The personal, the social and the political are always interconnected.
All these works highlight the reasons of our existence, our endurance and our path: the positive elements that built modern Hellenism.
In a secluded corner of the Ionian Sea…
12 June – 8 September 2019
The ‘1821 before and after’ exhibition will take over the entire Benaki Museum / Pireos 138 building between March and October 2021. Its extent and duration signify its value and importance for the Benaki Museum.”
Collect experiences… Not things…
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A first time presentation to the public of remarkable artefacts
