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The museum's founding mission is to preserve and display works of contemporary art by Greek and foreign artists, to improve the public's aesthetic appreciation and art education, to develop scientific research into issues surrounding the history and theory of contemporary art, as well as to assist art historians and theoreticians who wish to specialize in museology.
The museum was founded in 1979 by a group of visionary citizens of Thessaloniki. In a conversation between Maro Lagia and gallerist and collector Alexandros Iolas, after the latter had shown a keen interest in the damage inflicted on monuments by the 1978 Thessaloniki earthquake, Lagia proposed the creation of a contemporary art centre in Thessaloniki.
External view. MOMus Photography, in full MOMus–Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, [1] is located in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece.It is currently housed in Warehouse A, Pier A, at the Port of Thessaloniki, next to the Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki.
The museum was founded in 2004 as the Museum of Contemporary Art Alex Mylona [3] to showcase the work and life of the Greek sculptor Alex Mylona (1923 - 2016) and to provide a venue for young artists. The museum's permanent collection includes works from Mylona's long artistic career, such as sculptures, but also drawings, paintings, collages ...
Momus (/ ˈ m oʊ m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Μῶμος Momos) in Greek mythology was the personification of satire and mockery, two stories about whom figure among Aesop's Fables. During the Renaissance , several literary works used him as a mouthpiece for their criticism of tyranny, while others later made him a critic of contemporary society.
MOMus–Museum of Contemporary Art; MOMus–Museum of Modern Art–Costakis Collection; MOMus–Thessaloniki Museum of Photography; Municipal Art Gallery (Thessaloniki) Museum for the Macedonian Struggle (Thessaloniki) Museum of Byzantine Culture
This is a list of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. Naples Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy 130,000 objects [1] State Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia 106,000 objects [2] (Misleading collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast) British Museum, London, UK 100,000 ...
Maria Callas Museum; Marika Kotopouli Museum; Melina Merkouri Cultural Center; MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona; Municipal Gallery of Athens; Museum of Anthropology, University of Athens; Museum of Criminology (Athens) Museum of Greek Folk Art; Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments; Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies; Museum of the ...