The Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece – National Historical Museumthe Maria Tsakos Public Benefit Foundation – International Center for Maritime Research and Tradition and Piraeus Bank, are pleased to announce that the floating exhibition scheduled for 2021, in the context of the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution ’21, from the Museum’s Collections, which was twice postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will take place this year, starting from the port of Chios, on Sunday, June 26, 2022.
The Exhibition has been included in the multifaceted anniversary program of the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece – National History Museum under the title “REVOLUTION ΄21: the floating exhibition”. The Exhibition will be roamed in approximately 20 ports of island Greece by the sailing educational boat “Mania” of the Nautical High School of the “Maria Tsakos” Foundation, kindly provided for this purpose. If their operational needs, in the sea area of the “Mania”, allow it, the Exhibition will be framed by units of the Navy and the Coast Guard and a fleet of private escort vessels.
For its part, Piraeus Bank, in the context of its diverse anniversary program “free”, has joined and supports the organization and implementation of this original floating exhibition, as well as the creation of the IEEE / EIM commemorative medal.
The Exhibition aims to highlight the naval Struggle of ’21both with authentic relics from the Museum’s Collections (eg the cross from Miaoulis’s ship, the snatch from Kanaris’s artillery, naval weapons, philhellenic objects dedicated to the naval Struggle, etc.) as well as digital applications (Indicatively, short videos, digital representations of naval battles, audio excerpts from historical sources or music, graphic representations, prints, etc. are mentioned).
The narrative of the Exhibition will start from the Aegean of the pre-revolutionary years and the first steps for the creation of militant Greek units against the dominant Ottoman fleet. It will highlight seafarers, historic islands, critical events and figures of the naval Struggle and will close with historical evidence that will encourage and encourage the visitor to reflect on the impact that the naval Struggle had within the fighting Nation and in Europe in general and the fate of of its protagonists after the release.
The seaports that the Exhibition will visit include, apart from Chios (Chora and Kardamyla), Oinousses, Psara, Lesvos, Lemnos, Samothrace, Agios Efstratios, Skyros, Andros, Syros, Spets , Hydra, Poros, Aegina. The end of the Exhibition is Piraeus. Residents and visitors from the above ports will have the opportunity to see the Exhibition but also to participate in related anniversary events, for the organization of which local bodies and Piraeus Bank will be involved.
The Exhibition, which will be open to the public, will be accompanied, in addition to Curators and Preservers of the National History Museum, by Professor of the Department of History and Archeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Maria Efthymiou, who will kindly offer series of speeches on the decisive contribution of the Navy to the auspicious outcome of the Struggle of National Polygenesis.
The project of the floating Exhibition is distinguished, among the events that were organized to honor the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution, as extremely innovative and original. It is not, however, unprecedented in the long history of the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, which, with similar energy, collected, in the first years of its public presence, in 1884, valuable relics from which the first nucleus of the collections was created. of the National History Museum.
The Exhibition is supplemented by a scientific catalog-album entitled “The naval struggle of 1821”, a valuable collection of the IEEE / EIM and the “Maria Tsakos” Foundation, one of the most important contributions to the anniversary editions of 2021.
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