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The Marika Kotopouli Museum started operating on May 9 1990, in order to be a functional museum of modern art. The building is the summer house, built in 1926 by the great actress of the Greek Theatre Marika Kotopouli.
The Marika Kotopouli Museum started operating on May 9 1990, in order to be a functional museum of modern art.
The building is the summer house, built in 1926 by the great actress of the Greek Theatre Marika Kotopouli. During German occupation, the house was seized. Later, it housed the Police precinct of the area, and finally, the municipality, aided by the Greek Actors’ Guild, took to restoring the listed building, under great respect, showcasing its architectural mentality and the exquisite internal spaces, where nowadays events of the highest cultural expression and creation are hosted.
This museum does not have any exhibits of Kotopouli. It is on its own a museum piece, for the time being hosts only artistic venues and it is a permanent home for the artistic collection of Konstantinos Ioannidis.
Τhe report of the Archaeological Museum Rethymno include items from various excavations and give a timeless image of cultural history of the country from the Neolithic period to the years of Roman occupancy.
The purpose of the exhibition is to present the long lasting history of the island, and the short depiction of various aspects of human life, as it has been shifting through the ages.
Rhodes Archaeological Museum contained prehistoric and Mycenaean artifacts, jars of the Geometric, Archaic and Classic periods, sculptures, writings, a collection of rhodian sealed jars, coins, a collection of the byzantine and medieval era as well as a folklorar collection.
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