The Museum will open its doors to the public on Sunday, with the first phase of the permanent exhibition curated by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Halkidiki and Mount Athos.
The New Archaeological Museum of Polygyros launched by the Minister of Culture and Sports Mrs Lina Mendoni on Saturday 9 July, at 12.30.
From the following day, the Museum will open its gates to the public, with the first phase of the permanent exhibition curated by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Halkidiki and Mount Athos.
The exhibition of the new Museum is developed in four thematic sections: Place and History, Prehistoric societies, Historical times, Collections and Donations. Findings from the most important prehistoric settlements and cemeteries of Halkidiki, Agios Mama, Olynthos and Toroni, Kriaritsi and Nea Skioni are presented, while selected exhibits from Roman times, funerary statues and columns, prepare the visitor before the completion of the Historical Times section.
In the room where the Collections are exhibited, the Lampropoulos Collection occupies a dominant position. The exhibition is enriched with multimedia applications, such as an interactive map-chronology that runs through the history of Halkidiki and places of archaeological interest, interactive screens concerning the History of Research with the presentation of the most important stations and researchers in the region, in the Written Sources that refer to events that they took place in Halkidiki, as well as in the personality of Aristotle, the great Stagerite philosopher.
Also, through 3D projection mapping (3D Projection Mapping), the excavation activity is presented in a comprehensible and demonstrative way, in order to understand the process and the result of an excavation that results in the preservation, study and presentation of the finds in the Museum. The multi-layered information for the public is complemented by screens with landscapes and antiquities, enriched with images of timeless activities in the area, as well as videos from the periodic exhibition of the Lambropoulos Collection that was presented at the Museum in 2019.
The re-exhibition project “Organization and implementation of the permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum – Phase I” was included in the Operational Program “Central Macedonia 2014-2020” and was implemented with the co-financing of the European Regional Development Fund.
The project “Organization and implementation of the permanent exhibition of the Archaeological Museum of Polygyros – 2nd Phase of completion and operation” is in progress, included in the PDE and with an estimated completion date of the end of 2023.
After the inauguration, the minister will carry out an autopsy at the archaeological site of Olynthos, while earlier she will have meetings with the deputy governor of Halkidiki Giorgos Ioannis and the mayor of Polygyros Asterios Zografos, while she will also sign the program contract “Highlighting of the Archaeological Site in Stagira Halkidiki” between of the Ministry of the Interior and the Region of Central Macedonia, in the presence of the mayor Aristotelis Stelios Valianos.
“The Revolution of 1821 in Halkidiki”
On Friday, July 8, at the Old Building of the Neo Flogitans joint-stock complex, the YPPO will inaugurate the periodic exhibition “The Revolution of 1821 in Halkidiki”, which combines historical documentation, relics, modern technologies and dramatized narration.
The exhibition was designed, organized and presented, in the context of the celebration of 200 years since the Revolution of 1821, by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Halkidiki and Mount Athos
Its primary purpose is a historically documented presentation of the struggle of 1821 in Halkidiki, unknown to many events that played a decisive role in the success and consolidation of the Revolution in southern Greece.
Earlier on Friday, Ms. Mendoni will perform an autopsy at the cave and the Petralona Museum.
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