Mount Athos Center

With the restaging of the exhibition of historic photographs and film from the archives of Princeton University, the Mount Athos Center is organising a series of guided afternoon tours aimed mainly at adults and designed to present the unique and fascinating story of the three traveller-artists who travelled from Princeton to Mount Athos and the Meteora in 1929.

The guided tours, which will be led by Mr. Anastasios Douros, the curator of the exhibition and director of the Mount Athos Center, will take place at the following times:

Thursday 29 February: (1^st) 17:00 – 18:30 & (2^nd) 18:30 – 20:00
Thursday 14 March:     (3^rd) 17:00 – 18:30 & (4^th) 18:30 – 20:00
Thursday 28 March:     (5^th) 17:00 – 18:30 & (6^th) 18:30 – 20:00
Thursday 11 April:       (7^th) 17:00 – 18:30 & (8^th) 18:30 – 20:00

Each of the above 8 guided tours will be for a group of 15 people and so all those interested in going on a tour are requested to reserve a place either by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by ringing the telephone number 2310263308, stating their full name and the date and time they wish to go on a tour.

Guided tours for school students will continue to be provided every morning, subject to prior arrangement with the Mount Athos Center (please contact +30 2310 263 308).

The rareness and uniqueness of the documents displayed in the exhibition ‘No Woman’s Land. From Princeton to Mount Athos and the Meteora in 1929’, together with its huge popularity with the general public, schools and other educational institutions both in Thessaloniki and Kalambaka, has prompted us to restage the exhibition in the exhibition space of the Mount Athos Center in Thessaloniki (Egnatia 109) from 15 February until 15 April 2024.

An exhibition of historic photographs

25 May – 16 September 2023

The Mount Athos Center, in collaboration with the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University, presents, for the first time in Greece, this exhibition of historic photographs from the expedition undertaken by three traveller-artists from Princeton to Mount Athos and the Meteora in 1929.

The exhibition will be officially opened at 7 p.m. on Thursday 25 May 2023 in the exhibition space of the Mount Athos Center (109 Egnatia St.).

Art exhibition devoted to the memory and work of Nikolaos Masteropoulos

The Mount Athos Center presents the original art exhibition entitled ‘Nikolaos Masteropoulos: The Road from Beauty to Spirituality’ to mark the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the death of this leading artist.

The exhibition will be officially opened at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday 21 February 2023 in the exhibition space of the Mount Athos Center (109 Egnatia St.).

On Sunday 23 October 2022 the exhibition organised by the Mount Athos Center entitled ′St. Demetrius in the art of Mount Athos’ was officially opened in the ′Casa Băniei′, a traditional-style building in Craiova, Romania. The exhibition has been jointly organised by the Mount Athos Center of Thessaloniki and the Department of Ethnography of the Oltenia Museum in Craiova, together with the city’s ′Alexandru and Aristia Aman’ County Library, and forms part of the city’s celebrations to mark the feast-day of St. Demetrius, the patron saint of Craiova.

On the afternoon of Tuesday 13 September the exhibition entitled ‘Mount Athos: The Ark of Orthodoxy’, jointly organized by the Mount Athos Center of Thessaloniki and the Mount Athos Foundation of America, was officially opened at the Maliotis Cultural Center of the Hellenic College and Theological School of the Holy Cross in Boston.