Conference Venue
- The
Museum of Byzantine Culture is considered to be the best museum of
Byzantine and Post-Byzantine art internationally known. It is located downtown,
close to the most important sites of the city. It is within walking
distance from the majority of city hotels and has very interesting
exhibits and warm amphitheatres.
The Museum of Byzantine Culture presents various aspects of life
during the byzantine and post-byzantine periods: art, ideology, social
structure and religion, as well as how historical changes and the political
situation were affecting people' s everyday life. It was awarded the Council
of Europe Museum Prize for 2005, following the concurrent recommendation of
the Council' s Committee for Culture, Science and Education.
The founding of the Museum of Byzantine Culture and its official opening in
1994 in Thessaloniki, the most "Byzantine" city of the modern Greek state,
marks the end of a story that had begun long before, just after the city' s
liberation in 1912.
- The
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art was founded in 1979 by a
group of visionary citizens of Thessaloniki. In a conversation between
Maro Lagia and Alexandros Iolas, after the latter had shown a keen
interest in the damages inflicted on the monuments of Thessaloniki by
the 1978 catastrophic earthquake, Maro proposed the creation of a
contemporary art centre in Thessaloniki. Iola’s response was immediate
–“Oh yes, no more hospitals and orphanages; a centre of contemporary
art; that’s exactly what Thessaloniki needs.” Alexandros Iolas’
encounter with Thessaloniki was to acquire special significance, not
only for the city but also for the posthumous fame of this singularly
perceptive collector. There is nothing in Greece today to recall his
inspired and creative sojourn in the country save the collection of the
47 works that he donated a generation ago as a “nucleus” around which to
build a Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in this city. (wikipedia)
For information about the city of Thessaloniki please visit:
http://www.saloniki.org/,
http://www.thessaloniki360.com/en/
You may also check places related to the Symposium in the city centre
