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The Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki aims to operate as a place of memories, meetings and discovery between the creators, their creations and the audience.
The collection and the archives of the museum are comprised of more than 100.000 photography related objects. In the archives that cover the time span from 1890-1980, one can find works of Socrates Iordanides, Giannis Stylianos and Dimitris Letsios, while the museum is the trustee of the greek part of Fred Boissonnas, τwhich belongs to O.P.E.P. Concerning the collections which were obtained by purchasing and offers, they cover the time period from 197o until today, and contain more than 2000 creations of various contributors from Greece and abroad.
Among its important activities, is the organization of exhibitions (50 annualy in the museum and in other spaces) with an intent to promote Greek and international photography, as well as to show the different uses and approaches to it. The exhibitions are split in exhibition cycles: “Eye to the city”,”Great creators”,”Greeks abroad”,”The 4 elements and man” etc.
Every two years, the museum organizes the Internation Festival of Photography Photobiennale, an evolution of a previous 20 year olf fair, displaying more than 25 exhibitions in 30 places around Thessaloniki, with the participation of artists from Greece and abroad, as well as organising the portfolio reviews with the participation of 20 experts on photography from around the world, the prizes, (Cedefop prize/ Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki, Pilsner Urquell prize), masterclasses, meetings, workshops and parallel events. During the Photobiennale exhibitions of the museum are displayed in other cities around Greece.
The MPT also has training programmes, with special motivators, which are targeted towards students and teachers of any age, aiming to promote photo culture in Greece.
The MPT is also active in organizing lectures such as the discussion meetings «Words and Images in the Museum», where photographers, art critics, collectors, representatives of cultural institutions from Greece and abroad, discuss about photography.
The Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki aims to operate as a place of memories, meetings and discovery between the creators, their creations and the audience. That is to set a standard operation mode, and to be a cultural organization open to the other arts.
The old venetian building that was at the beginning of the 20th century one of the first industrial areas of the island, it is now a modern Museum space high standards.
740 metres up on the north face of Mount Psiloritis in prefecture of Rethymno lies proudly Anogia. A village with a history that is powerful and tragic at the same time. Burned by the Turks in 1822 and by the Germans in 1944,this village has a heroic story to tell.
The paleontological collection of the Municipality of Rethymnon, which consists of findings from excavations from all over the prefecture by German scientist Siegfired Kuss (University of Freiburg), will form the basis of the exhibition. The Goulandris foundation has been looking after this collection in collaboration with the University of Athens (Historical Geology and Palaeontology Faculty).
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