The Acropolis Museum announced on Wednesday a new programme of presentations and guided tours, due every Saturday afternoon until June.
Through selected exhibits presented by the archaeologists-hosts of the museum, visitors will be introduced to intriguing aspects of antiquity, such as the assembled art, the sacred caves of the Acropolis, the Erechtheion and more. “The three-dimensional art of Athens was not made exclusively from a single piece of material, nor from only one type of material, e.g. stone, terracotta or metal. A variety of members from the same or different materials bound together in a harmonious ensemble, were used for its production in different sizes and for various purposes”, notes the Museum in a statement in reference to the first alternating gallery talk under the title "Assemlbed Art", which will take place on Saturday November 1.
The coming Saturday, the museum will present the “Erechtheion: The identity of Athens” talk, with the host to be discussing ancient mythical figures that left their mark on the most ancient cult site on the Acropolis.
More information and the full programme of the Alternating Gallery Talks, are available at the Museum’s official webpage:http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/el/content/enallassomeni-thematiki-parousiasi,
The Saturday Gallery Talks are also available in English, upon arrangement with the Museum. Contact email: learning@theacropolismuseum.gr
Christos Kalloniatis (Professor of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean), Iris Kritikou (Archaeologist-Historian of Art), Konstantinos Maniatopoulos (Director of the Stratis Eleftheriadis-Tériade Museum – Library, Visual Artist-Historian of Art), Irine Vasilopoulou