Athens | Museum of Cycladic Art
The Museum of Cycladic Art is dedicated to the study and promotion of ancient cultures of the Aegean and Cyprus. The Main Building is at Kolonaki district and an 8-minute walk from Syndagma Metro station.The building has 4 floors with galleries, occupying a total of approximately 2,300 sq. m.Find out about the mysterious Cycladic Culture that flourished during the Early Bronze Age on the islands of the Aegean Sea, on the museum's 1st floor. It hosts the world's largest collection of Cycladic art - one of Athens' must-sees.The 2nd floor houses the Ancient Greek Art Collection that covers the period between 2000 BC and 4th c. AD. The display offers a fresh look into the world of the ancient Greeks, in a new museographic environment with several interactive applications.On the 4th floor, a display called Scenes from daily life in antiquity offers a thematic exploration of various aspects of public and private life in ancient times. Ancient artifacts are ingeniously combined with high quality graphics and videos offering contemporary interpretation.The main building also houses the Café of the museum, a great place to cool down and have lunch prepared by award winning chefs, which is located at the atrium of the ground floor. Next to the Café is the Museum Shop, where visitors can find exact reproductions of the museum pieces, home-ware designs inspired by Cycladic, Ancient Greek, and Cypriot motifs, books and various kinds of memorabilia.From the atrium, a corridor leads to the Stathatos Mansion, an eclectic-style neoclassical building designed by Ernst Ziller, where contemporary exhibitions are held, one of the most beautiful buildings in the area.
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Discover the Museum of Cycladic Art
A dynamic cultural institute in the centre of Athens, the Museum of Cycladic Art focuses on promoting the ancient cultures of the Aegean and Cyprus, with particular emphasis on Cycladic art of the third millennium BC.
Since it was founded in 1986 to house the private collection of Dolly and Nikolaos Goulandris, the Museum has expanded significantly and now houses one of the most complete private collections of Cycladic art worldwide, with representative examples of the world renown Cycladic marble figurines.
The Museum’s permanent collections include 3000 Cycladic, ancient Greek, and ancient Cypriot artefacts, witnesses to the cultures that flourished in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean from the fourth millennium BC to approximately the sixth century AD.
FIRST FLOOR: CYCLADIC ART
The Museum of Cycladic Art houses one of the most complete private collections of Cycladic art worldwide, with representative examples of figurines and vases, tools, weapons, and pottery from all phases of the distinctive Cycladic island culture that flourished in the central Aegean during the Early Bronze Age (third millennium BC). Marble carving is the most characteristic product of Cycladic culture, and the abstract forms of its figurines have influenced several twentieth and twenty-first century artists, such as Constantin Brancusi, Amedeo Modigliani, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, and Ai Weiwei. Although Cycladic marble figurines and vases appeal to the modern viewer for their almost translucent whiteness, their creators loved colour and used it liberally on these objects for both practical and symbolic reasons.
SECOND FLOOR: ANCIENT GREEK ART – A HISTORY IN IMAGES
Ancient Greek Art is renowned for its rich iconography. Gods and heroes, myths, religious ceremonies, aspects of daily life, and even the moment of death are depicted in numerous high quality images on a variety of media. These images provide valuable information about ancient Greek societies, their organization and structure, and the beliefs of people.
The exhibition unravels the history of Ancient Greek Art from the 2nd millennium BC to the 4th century AD. By exploring the 350 exhibits of the gallery (vases, sculptures, figurines, metal vessels, coins etc.), visitors can discover how the various artistic forms came into being, how they evolved in time, and how the symbolism of images changed in relation to the social and political conditions of each period.
A special section is dedicated to the fascinating topic of ancient technology. With the help of videos and interactive applications, visitors can become familiar with the techniques used in antiquity to manufacture objects like those exhibited in this and other archaeological museums.
THIRD FLOOR: CYPRUS – ANCIENT ART AND CULTURE
The Thanos N. Zintilis Collection of Cypriot Antiquities, one of world’s most important, was loaned permanently to the Museum of Cycladic Art in 2002. This display, which showcases more than 500 artefacts from the Chalcolithic to the Modern periods, focuses on the great variety of styles and intricate forms of prehistoric and historic pottery, weaving, metalwork, worship, burial practices, foreign relations, and the development of both large-scale, and miniature sculpture. Maps, texts, and multimedia applications richly illustrate and document the archaeology of Cyprus, making the display accessible to children, students, the general public, and scholars alike.
FOURTH FLOOR: ANCIENT GREEK ART – SCENES FROM DAILY LIFE IN ANTIQUITY
This display transports visitors to the world of antiquity. It is a virtual tour in time and space that begins in the realm of gods and heroes, continues through the world of Eros, follows the activities of everyday men and women in private and public life, explores their religious practices, and ends with the Underworld. 142 ancient artefacts, mostly Classical and Hellenistic (fifth-first centuries BC), are grouped in nine thematic units. Two short videos made for this exhibit with the latest technical innovations complement the display.
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
The Museum of Cycladic Art’s temporary exhibitions focus on archaeology and modern and contemporary art with the aim to familiarize the public with important twentieth and twenty-first century artists and to explore the relations between ancient cultures and modern art. Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Thomas Struth, Louise Bourgeois, Sarah Lucas, Ugo Rondinone, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Ai Weiwei, and Cy Twombly are among the artists hosted. Temporary exhibitions are housed in both the museum’s Main Building and the Stathatos Mansion, one of the most important extant nineteenth-century Neoclassical buildings in Athens. A glass-roofed corridor connects the two.
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ANCIENT GREEK TOUR GOULANDRIS FOUNDATION MUSEUM of CYCLADIC ART ATHENS Prt#1
June 2008 Athens, A visit to the N.P. Goulandris Foundation Museum of Cycladic Art. Has a unique and modern exhibition on the scenes of daily life of Greek Antiquity. It encompass's mythology, life and death, war, politics, crafts and cultural determination. This is a Must See, when visiting Athens for those history enthusiasts, students and anyone who has a pathos for Ancient Greek history. The atmosphere is inviting and draws the viewer as an interactive component to this marvelous exhibition.
Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης, Αθήνα / Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens Greece
Το Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης ιδρύθηκε το 1986 με σκοπό να στεγάσει τη συλλογή με έργα Κυκλαδικής και Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Τέχνης των Νικολάου και Αικατερίνης Γουλανδρή. Το Μουσείο στεγάζεται σε ειδικά σχεδιασμένο κτίριο στην οδό Νεοφύτου Δούκα στο κέντρο της Αθήνας, ενώ από το 1991 έχει επεκταθεί και σε νέα πτέρυγα, στο νεοκλασικό Μέγαρο Σταθάτου, στη συμβολή των οδών Βασιλίσσης Σοφίας και Ηροδότου.
Το Ίδρυμα Νικολάου Π. Γουλανδρή, στο οποίο ανήκει από το 1985 η συλλογή, είναι αφιερωμένο, σύμφωνα με το καταστατικό του, στη μελέτη και διάδοση του πολιτισμού του Αιγαίου, από την προϊστορική περίοδο μέχρι τους νεώτερους χρόνους. Τους σκοπούς του Ιδρύματος υπηρετεί η μόνιμη έκθεση στο Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης, αλλά και οι διάφορες περιοδικές εκθέσεις που οργανώνονται με θέματα από τον ευρύτερο χώρο της Ελληνικής Τέχνης, ενώ συχνά φιλοξενούνται και εκθέσεις οργανωμένες από άλλους φορείς.
Τα 350 περίπου αντικείμενα Κυκλαδικής τέχνης που εκτίθενται στον πρώτο όροφο του κεντρικού κτιρίου (είσοδος από Νεοφύτου Δούκα) αποτελούν μία από τις σημαντικότερες Κυκλαδικές συλλογές στον κόσμο. Εκτίθενται αντικείμενα σε πηλό, μέταλλο και μάρμαρο, κατασκευασμένα από τους κατοίκους των Κυκλάδων κατά την 3η χιλιετία π.Χ. Ανάμεσά τους ξεχωρίζουν τα μαρμάρινα ειδώλια, γυναικείες κυρίως μορφές που έχουν σκαλιστεί στο κυκλαδίτικο μάρμαρο με αφαιρετικό, υποβλητικό τρόπο. Στην έκθεση του Μουσείου Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης περιλαμβάνονται αντιπροσωπευτικά παραδείγματα από όλες τις κατηγορίες Κυκλαδικών ειδωλίων και των άλλων έργων του Κυκλαδικού πολιτισμού.
Στη συλλογή της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Τέχνης περιλαμβάνονται έργα ελληνικής τέχνης από την εποχή του Χαλκού (2η χιλιετία π.Χ.) μέχρι την Ύστερη Ρωμαϊκή περίοδο (4ος αι. μ.Χ.). Αντιπροσωπεύονται οι κυριότερες κατηγορίες της ελληνικής τέχνης, όπως η κεραμική, ειδωλοπλαστική και γλυπτική όλων των περιόδων, ενώ περιλαμβάνονται και αντικείμενα διαφόρων περιόδων από χαλκό, γυαλί, πολύτιμα μέταλλα, καθώς και μια χαρακτηριστική συλλογή νομισμάτων από τις Κυκλάδες. Η συλλογή Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Τέχνης εκτίθεται στο 2ο όροφο του κεντρικού κτιρίου.
Στον 4ο όροφο φιλοξενείται μόνιμα η συλλογή Καρόλου και Ρίτας Πολίτη, δύο σημαντικών Ελλήνων συλλεκτών, οι οποίοι δώρησαν τη συλλογή τους στο Ίδρυμα Ν.Π. Γουλανδρή το 1989. Στα εκθέματα του 4ου ορόφου περιλαμβάνονται μαρμάρινα γλυπτά, πήλινα ειδώλια, κοσμήματα, και μία εντυπωσιακή συλλογή από αρχαία μετάλλινα κράνη.
ANCIENT GREEK TOUR GOULANDRIS FOUNDATION MUSEUM of CYCLADIC ART ATHENS Prt#2
June 2008 Athens, N.P. Goulandris Foundation Museum of Cycladic Art. Part #2 explores the life and death culture of Greek Antiquity. The reglious rituals are graphically portrayed in this moving video in the exhibition, history enthusiasts, students and lovers of Greek Antiquity will find this educational and visually stimulating.
Museum of Cycladic Art - Athens (Greece)
The ancient Cycladic culture flourished in the islands of the Aegean Sea from c. 3300 to 1100 BCE. Along with the Minoan civilization and Mycenaean Greece, the Cycladic people are counted among the three major Aegean cultures. Cycladic art therefore comprises one of the three main branches of Aegean art.
MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART - GREECE, ATHENS
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MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART - GREECE, ATHENS
The Museum of Cycladic Art opened its doors to the public in January 1986. This living cultural institution in the heart of Athens houses the collection of Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris; more than 3.000 objects of Cycladic, Ancient Greek and Cypriot art (dating from the 5th millennium BC to the 6th century AD) are displayed in the galleries of the four floors of the Museum of Cycladic Art. The Museum owns one of the most important collections of Cycladic Art worldwide and hosts major archaeological, modern and contemporary art exhibitions.
Address: Neofitou Douka 4, Athina 106 74, Greece
Established: 1986
Phone: +30 21 0722 8321
museum@cycladic.gr
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MAKING OF 'PRINCESSES' at the Museum of Cycladic Art
Princesses of the Mediterranean in the Dawn of History
13 December 2012 -- 10 April 2013
The Museum of Cycladic Art (Athens, Greece) presents its new archaeological exhibition under the title 'Princesses' of the Mediterranean in the dawn of History, curated by the Museum's Director Professor Nicholas Stampolidis, in collaboration with Dr Mimika Giannopoulou. The exhibition presents 24 examples of 'princesses' from Greece, Cyprus, Southern Italy, and Etruria from 1,000 to 500 BC, and over 500 artefacts.
Royal ladies or princesses; priestesses or healers; women of authority or knowledge; local women, who stood apart from the rest; other women, who accepted and adopted the cultural traits of different societies or of the men they married in their homeland -- local or foreign men -- or even those women, who for reasons of intermarriage, traveled from one place to another, are the women this exhibition examines. Through their stories, one can distinctly perceive how these women played a contributing role in broadening the cultural horizons of their time, including their involvement in the development of the archaic Mediterranean culture.
This exhibition presents real women. Not mythical or other figures. Women who were born, who lived; women of flesh and bone. Or, even better, women whose material remains, their bones, survive and 'speak' after thousands of years. When considered with tomb and burial types, funerary customs, and, above all, the grave gifts and other objects (garments and jewellery) buried with them - whether chosen by the deceased in life, or provided after their passing by loved ones to take to Persephone's meadow - these remains can potentially help 'resuscitate' them by lifting the veils of time to see their likeness, however faintly, as far as archaeological thinking and interpretation permits.
The Lady of Lefkadi in Euboea, the Wealthy Athenian Lady from the Areopagus, the famous Picenean queen from Sirolo-Numana near modern Ancone, burials from Verucchio and Basilicata in Italy, from Eleutherna in Crete, from Sindos in Thessaloniki are only a few examples of the exhibition which dazzles with its wealth of objects.
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Cycladic Society 5000 years ago
In 2016 the Museum of Cycladic Art celebrates 30 years of creative presence with an exhibition entitled “Cycladic Society 5,000 Years Ago” open from early December 2016 to late March 2017.
Since no written documents of the Early Cycladic period survive, this exhibition attempts to “read” in a simple and straightforward manner the social structure, activities, living environment, and, where possible, convictions and beliefs of the Cycladic islanders in the Early Bronze Age (3,200-2,000 BC) through their creations.
Τhe exhibition is organized by the Museum of Cycladic Art in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades and it houses 191 ancient artefacts:from its own collections, the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades (98 artefacts come from the Museums of Naxos, Apeiranthos, Syros and Paros) as well as the National Archaeological Museum and the Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum.
CYCLADIC ART
Cycladic figurines in 1 minute, high definition.
Cycladic Art Museum - Athens, Greece
David's Been Here tours you around all the interesting, informative and must-visit sites of Athens, Greece. Here David presents a short video inside the Cycladic Art Museum, one of the top archaeological museums in the country. Open since 1986, this art museum takes you back to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with four floors of ancient art discovered amongst the Cycladic Islands. Tour through these amazing pieces of art and learn all about the ancient Aegean cultures of Greece and Cyprus; open every day except Tuesday.
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Μuseum Of Cycladic Art - Eros: from Hesiods theogony to late Antiquity. PART 2
Exhibition Video-Part 2
© Museum of Cycladic Art in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Curatorship
Nicholas Chr. Stampolidis
Yorgos Tassoulas
Direction-Editing
Daphne Tolis
Photography
Fanis Karagiorgos
Narration
Katerina Didaskalou
Text
Nicholas Chr. Stampolidis
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: PICASSO AND ANTIQUITY. LINE AND CLAY
A walk through the exhibition Picasso and Antiquity. Line and Clay with curators, Prof. Nicholas Chr. Stampolidis and Olivier Bergruen.
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Sixty-eight rare ceramics and drawings by Picasso converse thematically for the first time with sixty seven ancient works,
creating another Divine Dialogue between Greek antiquity and modern art.
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MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC AND ANCIENT GREEK ART
Σύντομη παρουσίαση των εκθεμάτων της συλλογής του Μουσείου Γουλανδρή, στο Κολονάκι της Αθήνας, από τον Κυκλαδικό και τον ευρύτερο αρχαίο ελληνικό πολιτισμό.
A short presentation of the threasures of the Goulandris collection in the homonymous museum at Kolonaki, Athens, with exhibits from Cycladic and ancient greek civilization, [with english subtitles]
Video. Explore the Cycladic Collection
The Museum of Cycladic Art houses one of the most complete private collections of Cycladic art worldwide, with representative examples of figurines and vases, tools, weapons, and pottery from all phases of the distinctive Cycladic island culture that flourished in the central Aegean during the Early Bronze Age (third millennium BC).
Marble carving is the most characteristic product of Cycladic culture, and the abstract forms of its figurines have influenced several twentieth and twenty-first century artists, such as Constantin Brancusi, Amedeo Modigliani, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, and Ai Weiwei.
Although Cycladic marble figurines and vases appeal to the modern viewer for their almost translucent whiteness, their creators loved colour and used it liberally on these objects for both practical and symbolic reasons.
Museum of Cycladic Art: 5 Seasons of the Russian Avant-Garde (Video Spot)
Spot of the exhibition '5 Seasons of the Russian Avant-Garde.Works by the Costakis Collection from the State Museum of Contemporart Art' presented at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens from 14 May to 20 October 2008.
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© Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
Museum of Cycladic Art: Her(his)tory (Video Spot)
Spot of the video-art exhibition Her(his)tory, organized in the MCA with the participation of well-known Greek and foreign artists. The exhibition focuses on a wide range of themes, such as the subjective perception of history, the profile of contemporary men and women, the role of artists and art in modern society, as well as issues of personal and collective identity. As suggested by the title, the exhibition themes are approached through personal everyday stories presented by the artists.
Presented at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens from 4 June to 29 September 2007.
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© Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece.
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