INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY (ICOM) MAY 18TH 2024

Given the continuous development of new data in cultural areas concerning the use of technologies and the building of the information society, Greece, as a member state of the EU, is actively involved in the developing environment of new technologies and their applications in museums. In the spirit of contemporary cultural facts, the Tériade Museum is organizing a Workshop on the theme: “Museums as a place to promote education and research, the case of the Museum-Library Tériade”.

The Museum-Library Stratis Eleftheriadis- Tériade is the first museum of modern art to operate in Greece and was inaugurated in August 1979. It is a donation of Tériade to his hometown of Mytilene and houses, preserves and displays a large and rare collection of artworks, with engravings by the greatest modernist artists of the 20th century, at the height of their creativity, but also by well-known Greek painters such as Tsarouchis, Theophilos, etc. It is also collaborating with museums in Greece and France such as the Matisse Museum and the MUCEM, Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean.

Despite the fact of being a poet, a painter, an art critic and an editor of high sensitivity and quality, the founder of the Museum, Stratis Eleftheriadis – Tériade, a wealthy Greek of Diaspora, became more established in the international artistic community of the modernist movement in Paris, as the unique animator and inspirer of the unprecedented phenomenon of bringing poets and artists together in an unprecedented combination of words and images. The unique combination of text and image in the Tériade Museum exhibits is reflected in the works of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, etc., all of whom were inspired by the Greek culture and some of whom had visited Greece.

The workshop will take place on 18 May, Saturday, from 14:00 to 20:00, at the V. & M. Theocharakis Foundation. Addresses will be delivered by the President of the Museum – Library Stratis Eleftheriadis-Tériade, Mrs Lila de Chaves-Chronopoulos, the Secretary General of Expatriate Hellenism and Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Professor Ioannis Chrysoulakis, the President of ICOM-EURO, Dr. Giuliana Ericani, while speeches will be given by foreign museum directors, including Mr Pascal Fulacher, Honorary Director of the Atelier du Livre d’art et de l’Estampe et du patrimoine de l’Imprimerie Nationale, Mr Patrice Deparpe, Director of the Matisse Museum, and Mrs Eurydice Trichon-Milsane, Art Historian, Author and Chef de Projets, Beaubourg. Speeches will also be delivered by Mr Christos Kalloniatis, Professor of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean, Mr Panos Gregoriou, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the University of the Aegean and holder of the Jean Monnet European Chair, Mrs Angeliki Hatzi, Theatre Educator – Museum Educator, Mrs Aspasia Destouni, AUTH, Faculty of Medicine and Scientific Director of NESTOR Consortium in the Netherlands, Estonia and Greece and Mr Konstantinos Maniatopoulos, Director of the Museum – Library Stratis Eleftheriadis – Tériade, Visual Artist-Historian of Art, Graduate of ASFA.

The workshop will be moderated by Mrs Iris Kritikou, Archaeologist-Historian of Art with whom the Museum-Library Tériade has a special collaboration.

Entrance is free to the public and after the workshop, there will be a reception at Café Merlin of the B&M Theocharakis Foundation.

Contact: Lila de Chaves-Chronopoulos, tel. 6944755570, email lildechav@yahoo.fr, Konstantinos Maniatopoulos tel. 2251023372, email kmaniatopoulos@gmail.com.