The Benaki Museum, in a series of events seeks to honour and highlight the work carried out by culture organisations in the Greek provinces that focuses on the study and promotion of culture. In line with this policy, for the sixth year running, the Benaki Museum will celebrate World Museum Day with an event honouring theHistoric Museum of Crete.

The purpose of the event is, on the one hand, to increase familiarity with and recognition of the work being carried out by the Historic Museum of Crete, and on the other hand, to make people aware of the necessity to provide support, both moral and financial, to cultural organisations, permitting their dynamic progress. 

As part of the celebrations the Museum will host the exhibition “Rudo Schwarz, Crete, 1943. A painter in Wehrmacht uniform”; a travelling exhibition from the Historical Museum of Crete, with select material from the archive and oeuvre of the German painter.