Greece
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Little Travelers: Learning the history of the National Garden (Athens, Greece)
7,000 trees from all over the world and 4,000 bushes become the setting for an exploration game in the National Garden of Athens. This is an initiative of the Onassis Foundation, where it invites families to discover the National Garden and learn its history. The action consists of 2 meetings, one online and one live. Background The Alexander S. Onassis Foundation was created by Aristotle Onassis to honor the memory of his son Alexander. The foundation is one of the largest in Europe, using its assets to create scholarship and prize programs. The Foundation aims at promoting Greek culture and civilization throughout the world and in Greece. The first international…
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Playing at home! Cycladic Art Museum (Athens, Greece)
The Cycladic Art Museum, through its website, invited children to play online; learning information about life in ancient Greece (children’s toys, food, clothing) Background The Cycladic Art Museum, is a living cultural institution in the centre of Athens that focuses on the promotion of the ancient civilizations of the Aegean and Cyprus, with special emphasis on Cycladic art of the 3rd millennium BC. It is a Legal Entity under Private Law supervised by the Ministry of Culture withοut state funding. The Museum has operated since 1986 to house and display the private collection of antiquities of Dolly and Nikolaos Goulandris. Since then, it has expanded significantly and today holds one…
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Georgy Litichevsky, Hypothetical Dances (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Georgy Litichevsky’s Hypothetical Dances is a notebook of autonomous educational action for parents and children. The notebooks are aimed at families and offer online a variety of activities for different ages of children and young people, while everyone can use them at will depending on their interests. The notebooks were organized based on material from the permanent collections and exhibitions of the bodies that make up MOMus in recent years, were updated based on the new conditions and are now ready to use in the air! Background The Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki – MOMus was born from the merger of four Thessaloniki-based museums/art venues (the…
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For these we fought…. Antiquities and the Greek Revolution (Athens, Greece)
2021 marked the 200 years from the Greek Revolution for Independence for the Ottoman occupation. The largest museum of Greece celebrated the anniversary with a digital exhibition (due to the covid-19 restrictions) linking the fight for freedom and the protection of the Greek antiquities Background The National Archaeological Museum is the largest museum in Greece and one of the most important in the world. Originally destined to receive all the 19th century excavations, mainly from Attica and other parts of the country, it gradually took the form of a central National Archaeological Museum and was enriched with finds from all parts of the Greek world. His rich collections, enumerating more…
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Acropolis Digital Museum, a new world (Athens, Greece)
A Web portal of modern aesthetics that captures the operation and activities of the Museum and provides multidimensional information and entertainment. Presents the Museum and its exhibition spaces, gives information for visiting, periodic exhibitions, activities, events, school and family activities, research, maintenance, new technologies. At the same time, it presents, for the first time on a Greek museum website, all of them making it accessible to the world community, the 2,156 exhibits that includes today, to which will be gradually added and those kept on Archaeological repositories of the Museum, accompanied by extensive descriptions, interactive glossary, bibliography, photos, drawings and in many cases videos. Background Located in the historic area…
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#snfccAtHome (Kallithea, Greece)
The most active cultural institution in Greece, reformed its program offering all their activities (music shows, theatrical performances, exhibitions, activities for all ages) online and free through its platforms in social media. SNFCC also recreated on of its spaces to a drive-in during the lockdown, where you could watch movies and live shows from the safety of your car Background One of the world’s leading private philanthropic organizations, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the arts and culture, education, health and sports, and social welfare. Since 1996, the SNF has committed more than €2.6 billion through more than 4,300 grants to nonprofit organizations in 124 countries…
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Activity E-Book – Creative at home, Nitra Gallery (Athens, Greece)
At the beginning of the lockdown, the cultural activity seemed to be dormant. The art, however, must be creative. The Nitra Gallery, following that “rule”, invited its collaborating artists to contribute to creating activities for kids who stayed at home. The ultimate goal was to collect all the activities in an online book, so kids not only stay imaginative but also familiarize themselves with contemporary artists, learn techniques and create their own works with the help of their parents. Background Nitra Gallery is the continuation of Atrion (founded in 1994). When Atrion turned to Nitra in 2013, under the initiative of Aliki Tsirliagkou, it moved to a new location at…
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Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation – Digital Games for Adults (Athens, Greece)
The Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation implemented an online activity to enhance creativity and self-confidence, transform introversion into expression, and encourage the use of digital tools from the elderly. Background The museum was designed from the onset to house the Collection of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation. The collection focuses on modern and contemporary art by Greek and foreign artists, including rare works by masters of the European avant-garde such as Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Monet, Degas, Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Picasso, Braque, Léger, Miró, Giacometti, Balthus, as well as works by distinguished modern Greek painters including Parthenis, Bouzianis, Vassiliou, Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Tsarouchis, Moralis, Tetsis and others. The building is a…
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School Life and Education Museum – How to adapt to the COVID-19 reality (Athens, Greece)
With the outbreak of the pandemic, Museums and Cultural Organizations were amongst those who suffered the most severe consequences. The School Life and Education Museum reorganized its operation and redesigned its educational programs and activities so that they could be utilized and implemented online or in open spaces. Background The School Life and Education Museum operates under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Education and is a member of the Network of Museums and Cultural Institutions of Athens. The collections of the Museum include objects from school life (one of the biggest collections of schoolbooks, costumes, archives, photographs) and tokens of intangible cultural heritage (audio documents, testimonies, interviews on…