Audio tour of the Acropolis Museum exhibition "Signs. Personifications and Allegories from Antiquity to the Present Day". Personalised concepts and meanings in human or animal form and allegorical stories. Alll these, along with others, can be visited and enjoyed at the Acropolis Museum's exhibition "Signs. Personifications and Allegories from Antiquity to the Present" which runs until 14 April 2024.
The exhibition consists of 164 works of small, medium and large size from different materials and eras, coming from 55 Museums and Institutions in Greece and abroad, as well as works by individuals. The curator of the exhibition and General Director of the Acropolis Museum, Prof. Nikolaos Stampolidis, invites you to an audio tour, a journey from Antiquity to Byzantium, the Renaissance and Modern Art.
Searching in each section of the exhibition hall the corresponding QR code – Time, Nature, Deities, Man and Human Nature, Institutions, Allegories – you will discover vases, reliefs, statues, coins, ceramic and clay shells, manuscripts and books, frescoes, icons and unique paintings, from several Museums of Italy and the Vatican (Musei Capitolini, Florence, N. A. Museo di Napoli, Gallerie Uffizi and Borghese, etc.), the Prado Museum of Madrid, the British Museum, the Museum of Art History of Vienna, the National Archaeological Museum, the Byzantine and Christian Museum, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, etc.
You can also participate in one of the weekly guided tours of the exhibition guided by the Museum's Archaeologists, which take place in Greek every Tuesday and Thursday at 12:00 and every Saturday and Sunday at 10:00 and 12:00, while in English every Tuesday and Thursday at 10:00. Reservations are made at http://events.theacropolismuseum.gr
As you leave, you may wish to visit the shop, where you will find beautiful souvenirs, among others from the series of objects "Spring", inspired by Flora, a fresco of the 1st century. A.D. from Pompeii to the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and respectively the series "Theros", inspired by part of a mosaic floor with the personification of the Ocean from the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The exhibition is accompanied by the scientific catalogue of the objects, which is available in a simple and hardcover version, and in English also.
"Spring", inspired by Flora, a fresco of the 1st century. A.D. from Pompeii to the National Archaeological Museum of Naples
"Theros", inspired by part of a mosaic floor with the personification of the Ocean from the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
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