An exhibition of historical photographs
27 September 2024 – 31 January 2025
On Friday 27 September the exhibition entitled ‘Mount Athos and Meteora 1929: Princeton’s hidden treasure’ was opened at the Maliotis Cultural Center in Boston, USA.
On Friday 27 September the exhibition entitled ‘Mount Athos and Meteora 1929: Princeton’s hidden treasure’ was opened at the Maliotis Cultural Center in Boston, USA.
On 26 October, the feast day of St. Demetrios, patron saint of Thessaloniki, we had the honour of welcoming the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mrs. Katerina Sakellaropoulou, to the Mount Athos Center in order to officially open the exhibition entitled ‘Artistic Journey on Mount Athos’, which features works by Greek artists from the period 1922-1995 from the collections of the Thessaloniki Municipal Art Gallery, the Teloglion Arts Foundation of Aristotle University, the Society for Macedonian Studies, the Central Library of Aristotle University, the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Holy Monastery of Dionysiou, the Mount Athos Art Archive (Holy Monastery of Simonopetra) and the Holy Convent of the Annunciation at Ormylia.
The Mount Athos Center is soon to open an exhibition of painting by Konstantinos Kerestetzis entitled ‘Watercolours of Mount Athos’ in the Center’s exhibition space. The exhibition will be officially opened by Mr. Stelios Angeloudis, Mayor of Thessaloniki and President of the Mount Athos Center’s Board of Directors, at 19.30 on Tuesday 25 June 2024 in the garden of the Mount Athos Center (Nedelkos Building, 109 Egnatia St., Thessaloniki).
22.04 - 15.06.2024
A group exhibition of photographs and sacred treasures
The Mount Athos Center is contributing to the programme of events for the Municipality of Thessaloniki’s ‘Devotional Week’ by organising a group exhibition of photographs and sacred treasures entitled ‘Easter on Mount Athos’, which presents photographic material on the subject of Holy Week and Easter in the Athonite republic.
George Kordis
‘Colour as Light’
An exhibition of contemporary Byzantine paintings by George Kordis entitled ‘Colour as Light’ will open on Thursday 14 March 2024 at the Museum of the Serbian Republic in Banja Luka.
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: (1st) 17:00 – 18:30 & (2nd) 18:30 – 20:00
Thursday 14 March: (3rd) 17:00 – 18:30 & (4th) 18:30 – 20:00
Thursday 28 March: (5th) 17:00 – 18:30 & (6th) 18:30 – 20:00
Thursday 11 April: (7th) 17:00 – 18:30 & (8th) 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).
More Articles ...
- Restaging of the historic photographic exhibition ‘No Woman’s Land. From Princeton to Mount Athos and the Meteora in 1929’
- No Woman’s Land From Princeton to Mount Athos and the Meteora in 1929
- Nikolaos Masteropoulos: The Road from Beauty to Spirituality
- The exhibition ‘St. Demetrius in the art of Mount Athos’ at Craiova (Romania)
E-shop
