The city of Elefsina, designated as European Capital of Culture 2023, is "showcased" in the exhibition Mystery 29_ Elefsina - Raw Museum, at the Benaki Museum /Pireos 138.
Elefsina in history
Elefsina (Eleusis or Elevsis in Ancient Greek, deriving fr…
Mingei is a project exploring the possibilities of representing and making accessible the tangible and intangible aspects of craft as cultural heritage. Its aim is to promote traditional skills to a younger audience through the use of technology.
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The ‘Greek genius’ or ellinikon daimonion appears as the combination of two stereotypes with a long pedigree: Homer’s ingenious Odysseus, triumphing with tricks over his foes, and Virgil’s ‘deceitful Odysseus’. The…
The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, with the collaboration of the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, present Landscapes of Time: The Films of Theo Angelo…
Trailblazing environmentalist Costa Carras, who passed away on 28 February 2022, was posthumously granted the Grand Prix for International Relations awarded at the 2022 European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards. Carras was the founder of the So…
The Ministry of Interior of the Hellenic Republic has announced that a fund has been approved in the amount of 2.9 million Euros as financial aid for the country’s municipalities in their effort to improve the welfare of stray animals, as part…
On the occasion of the centenary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the Benaki Museum and the Centre for Asia Minor Studies pay tribute to the history of Asia Minor Greeks through the exhibition "Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday - Catastrophe - Displacement…
The city’s annual art book fair is back! After last year’s Local Edition, the Athens Art Book Fair returns from 23 to 25 September at Athens Conservatory, with an international event hosting 80 local and international exhibitors and 60 pa…
From 24 to 30 September 2022, the Corfu Food & Wine Festival will offer locals and visitors alike, a journey into the gastronomy of Corfu and the Ionian Islands, but also of other areas of Greece as well as other countries and regions of the worl…
You may know Piraeus as the seaport from which myriads of tourists depart in the summer to reach various Greek islands. But Piraeus is much more than that; it is a charming vibrant seaside city, a major cultural and social urban hub of great importa…
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