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It was formerly known as the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Greek: Μουσείο Φωτογραφίας Θεσσαλονίκης). [ 2 ] The museum was founded in 1987 by Aris Georgiou , Apostolos Maroulis and Yiannis Vanidis , but it was not until 1997 that it was legally established and until 1998 that it opened with Giorgos Makris as ...
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.
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
Eleftherios Venizelos also used the historic building when he was in Thessaloniki in 1916–17 during the Movement of National Defence and in later years it was a high school. The centre houses the collection of contemporary Greek art owned by the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank.
Art exhibition in Teloglion (2023) Nestor's and Aliki's Telloglou donation is the core of the museum's art collection which numbers about 7,000 [11] [12] –8,000 [1] exhibits. The main body of the collection includes works of art by important Greek and European artists of the 19th and 20th century (drawings, prints, oil on canvas, sculptures ...
The Art Gallery of the Society for Macedonian Studies (Greek: Πινακοθήκη Εταιρείας Μακεδονικών Σπουδών) is a museum in Thessaloniki, Greece, founded in 1975. [1] It was the first organised visual art institution in the city of Thessaloniki, its purpose being to promote and disseminate modern Greek art ...
The Municipal Art Gallery of the Municipality of Thessaloniki in Central Macedonia, Greece was founded in 1966 as an offshoot of the Municipal Library. Since 1986 it has been housed in the Villa Mordoch on Vassilissis Olgas Avenue, a mansion designed by the architect Xenophon Paionidis in the eclectic style in 1905 and owned by the Municipality ...