Museum
Melina Mercuri Museum and Cultural Centre
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Adamantia
July 5, 2020
It’s the next best thing to a time machine: an exhibition recreating old storefronts and streets in Athens from the early 20th century to the interwar years. 'A Stroll through Old Athens' is small but definitely worth the visit for the building alone: the former Pil-Poul hat factory. Founded in 1886, the Pilopio Poulopoulos factory not only supplied the hats of well-dressed Athenians, but also employed hundreds of workers and exported its wares to Egypt, Bulgaria, and beyond. The 1,500-square metre building today houses the Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre, which hosts cultural events and the Haridimos Shadow-Puppet Theatre, dedicated to the traditional karagiozis puppet shows—ostensibly for kids, but laden with metaphors about Ottoman rule.
It’s the next best thing to a time machine: an exhibition recreating old storefronts and streets in Athens from the early 20th century to the interwar years. 'A Stroll through Old Athens' is small but definitely worth the visit for the building alone: the former Pil-Poul hat factory. Founded in 1886…
Anna
February 15, 2017
An impressive stone building which was built in 1886. For those of you who don't know who Melina Mecouri was, she was the most famous of all Greek actresses who played the leading role in the film Never On Sunday which was a worldwide cultural phenomenon in the early sixties.She was the daughter of a mayor of Athens and later in life became very active in politics. The museum has temporary exhibitions throughout the year as well as some permanent exhibitions such as a reconstructed 19th century Athens Street as well as the Haridimos Karagiozi, the puppets of the traditional Greek shadow theater.
An impressive stone building which was built in 1886. For those of you who don't know who Melina Mecouri was, she was the most famous of all Greek actresses who played the leading role in the film Never On Sunday which was a worldwide cultural phenomenon in the early sixties.She was the daughter of…
George
April 25, 2016
A museum named after the late actress and Minister of Culture, Melina Mercouri who heralded the campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles presently in the British Museum. Housed in an impressive stone millinery factory.
Korina
April 19, 2017
Named in honor of the famous Never on Sunday Greek actress who became a political figure in the 1980s.
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66 Iraklidon
Athina