Benaki Museum

With Lena Papaligoura, recent winner of the Melina Mercouri Award in the main role and other well-known actors such as Vicky Papadopoulou, Christos Sapountzis, Lydia Fotopoulou and Orfeas Avgoustidis , Sophocles' Antigone will be presented only for 15 performances...

Chairs have their own story, a story narrated with a unique style by the Italian furniture designer, Martino Gamper, who had the idea to reconstruct in 100 days 100 chairs, using materials from old chairs found in the streets...

Rendering homage to the prominent artist of the Greek Diaspora Constantine Manos, the Benaki Museum presents an exhibition / tribute to his renowned photographic series, A Greek Portfolio. With his exquisite images Manos invites us to travel with him...

This week the Benaki Museum will host the event Gastronomy Days - Destination of Origin: Greece, aiming to highlight Greek cuisine and to promote the authentic and unique products of Greece. This event will have a different approach for the...

The exhibition, Kyriakos Katzourakis’ Works 1963-2013: Painting, Theater, Cinematography, will take place in the Benaki Museum on Pireos Street from April 25 to July 28. This retrospective tribute to Katzourakis covers 50 years of creative work, from 1963 to...

Despite its crushing economic crisis, an avalanche of austerity measures and constant images of protests, strikes and riots, Greece remains an irresistible lure to many around the world, and some of its best features have been showcased in Australian...

The Benaki Museum in Athens is opening its gates on March 19 to host a photo exhibit titled, Thrace. So close, so far away: The Muslim world of western Thrace, by Pepi Loulakaki. What does the contemporary Greek know about...

The National Academy of Arts in Sofia in cooperation with the Benaki Museum in Athens, has organized an exhibition dedicated to Elli Souyioultzoglou-Seraïdari, known as Nelly's, one the most celebrated Greek photographers of the interwar period. The exhibition under the...

When back in the mid-1980's, the Swiss photographer Charles Weber visited Greece for vacation, he would have never imagined that this country would actually become his second home. Tooday, the 66 year-old photographer, has been living and working in the...

An exhibit of works by noted Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989) is being relocated to the Benaki Museum after suspension of the private Tsarouchis Museum's operation due to lack of funding, which relied mostly on ticket sales. The exhibition opens on...