MULTIMEDIA

“Mani through the senses” is a walking performance, with interventions from artists inside and around the house of Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor, that became the link between a school, a local organization, and a group of people with impaired vision.

On Wednesday 13 May 2020 the Benaki Museum welcomes the exhibition Robert McCabe – Katerina Lymperopoulou ‘The last monk of Strofades’.

In this episode of the CLOSE UPS video series, Tassos Sakellaropoulos, Head of Historical Archives, prompted by a small rug depicting the portrait of Eleftherios Venizelos, most likely the greatest politician of modern Greece, presents important aspects of his life and work.  

An 85 minute journey through the world of sculpture by Yannis Pappas.

Polina Kosmadaki, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints, Benaki Museum, 21 November 2020 Introduced by George Manginis, Academic Director, Benaki Museum

In this episode of the Close Ups video series, Irene Papageorgiou, Curator of Prehistoric, Ancient Greek and Roman Collection, presents a small-sized gold Mycenaean signet ring, which comes from Thebes and is part of the so called “Thebes Treasure”.

In this episode of the Close Ups video series, Tassos Sakellaropoulos, Head of the Benaki Museum Historical Archives, presents the flag which had been given as a gift by the commander in chief of the Greek forces in the Peloponnese Theodoros Kolokotronis, to Konstantinos Dragonas, a doctor from Zakynthos, working as a health minister for the British administration of the Ionian Islands.