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Greek Museums Reinvent Themselves During Lockdown
Credit: National Archaeological Museum in Athens
Greek museums, forced to shut their gates to the public in November of 2020, used lockdown time to find alternative ways to keep in touch with the public, carry out needed maintenance work, and expand their displays for the day when actual visits are allowed again.
Among them, the National Archaeological Museum of Athens is going full-force into the digital age with an ambitious project using EU funds allocated to Greece.
” width=”1080″>The Byzantine and Christian Museum is also setting up an annex in a historic mansion of downtown Athens.
3 May 2021 11:48am
Greek museums which were forced to shut their gates to the public in November, used lockdown time to find alternative ways to keep in touch with the public, and carry out needed maintenance work before lockdown.
Among them, the National Archaeological Museum (NAM) of Athens is going full-force into the digital age with an ambitious project using EU funds allocated to Greece, the Byzantine and Christian Museum is setting up an annex in a historic mansion of downtown Athens, the Piraeus Bank Group museums are throwing their weight behind podcasts of their specialized and dispersed museums that also cater to people with hearing and vision disabilities, and the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus is enthusiastically setting up a cinema division, with documentaries on antiquities that include two cartoon films.
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Ten Stunning Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Art
The Winged Victory of Samothrace. Credit: Xin Sy /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0
There are countless masterpieces of Ancient Greek art scattered in museums around the world, serving as a reminder that Greece is the cradle of Western Civilization.
These are works of unparalleled beauty, precious monuments of the world’s rich heritage that still mesmerize viewers and will continue to do so in the generations to come.
The Pergamon Altar: an Ancient Greek masterpiece in Asia Minor
” width=”1080″>Gigantomachy frieze on the Pergamon Altar. Credit: Miguel Hermoso Cuesta /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0
Built about 150 BC on the Acropolis the highest point of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Asia Minor, the Altar of Zeus at Pergamon, near modern-day Izmir, Turkey, is a masterpiece of ancient Greek art from the Hellenistic period.