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The opening ceremony in Bucharest of the exhibition entitled ‘Mount Athos and Meteora 1929 – Princeton’s Hidden Treasure’ was held with great success on Wednesday 24 June 2026, marking yet another important milestone in the exhibition’s international journey.
The exhibition has been organised by the Mount Athos Center in Thessaloniki in collaboration with the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University in the USA and the ‘Byzantina’ Cultural Institute, and is being held at the Galeria Fundației Bizantine, where it will remain open to the public until 1 October 2026.
 


June 24 - October 1, 2026

The exhibition of historic photographs from Princeton continues on its journey…


The Mount Athos Center in Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University in the USA and the Byzantine Cultural Institute in Bucharest, presents the exhibition entitled ‘Mount Athos and Meteora 1929 – Princeton’s Hidden Treasure’ in Bucharest. The exhibition represents a special cultural event as it displays a rare archive of photographs and film of great historic value.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the first presentation of the new book ‘Flora of the Athos Peninsula. Plant Life of the Holy Mountain’ (BROKEN HILL Publishers Ltd), which will take place at 19:00 on Friday 22 May 2026 at the Thessaloniki History Centre.

The book has been authored by the distinguished botanists Arne Strid (Denmark), Thomas Raus (Germany), and Stylianos Charalambidis and Panayiotis Dimopoulos (Greece).   

Following its organisation of the 12th Thematic International Scientific Conference in 2025 on the theme ‘Mount Athos and Thessaloniki through the centuries’, the Mount Athos Center, continuing its tradition of workshops, is organising, from 4-6 December 2026, its 9th International Scientific Workshop, the leading annual gathering of scholars and researchers dedicated to promoting research on Mount Athos to the international community.

The proceedings of the 12th International Scientific Conference of the Mount Athos Center, which was devoted to the theme of the historical and spiritual relations between Thessaloniki and Mount Athos, were brought to a successful conclusion on Sunday 7 December. The conference was held between 4 and 7 December 2025 in the ‘Stephanos Dragoumis’ Auditorium of the Museum of Byzantine Culture, as part of the Mount Athos Center’s 25th anniversary celebrations.

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