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Thessaloniki
Macedonia Greece
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 Archaeological
Museum of Thessaloniki Work on the construction of the Archaeological
Museum of Thessaloniki began in February 1961, to designs by the architect
Patroklos Karantinos. The building was inaugurated on 27th October 1962,
during the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of
Thessaloniki. In 1971, the displays were brought to completion in all the
rooms. They included sculpture, a prehistoric collection, miniature art
of the Archaic and Classical periods, and the brilliant group of finds
from the tombs at Derveni, which was first presented to the public on the
day of the inauguration ceremony. A few years later, in 1978, the astonishing
discoveries at Vergina led to the first changes in the display: finds from
the royal tombs were exhibited in the rooms housing the prehistoric collection
and miniature art as part of the exhibition “Treasures of Ancient Macedonia”.
The treasures from Vergina, and other precious discoveries of the 70’s,
made the construction of an extension to the Museum inevitable: the new
wing was inaugaurated in July 1980 with the exhibition “Alexander the Great”.
This same year saw the begininng of the excavation of the cemetey at Sindos,
with its rich finds of gold, and the "Sindos" exhibition was opened to
the public in October 1982. There followed in 1984 a repeat of the
exhibition of finds from Vergina and Derveni, in 1985 an exhibition on
ancient Thessaloniki, and in 1989 an exhibition of new finds dating from
the Archaic and Classical periods at the ground floor of the New Wing.
Other
museums are:
Ethnological
and Popular art: displaying costumes and objects of the last 250 years
of Greek national life and culture.
Museum
of the Macedonian Struggle: Exhibits from the years of local national
resistance 1878 - 1912.
Gallery
of Fine Arts: inside the building of the National Theater.
Museum
of the Society for Macedonian Studies.
Northern
Greece Cultural Center
Macedonian
Center of Modern Art: International
Technical
Museum of Thessaloniki
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