GENERAL INFORMATION
The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum (ILJM) is a nonprofit cultural organization certified by the Greek Ministries of Finance and Culture in 1993. The Museum acts as an international center for decorative arts and crafts, with an emphasis on goldsmithing and contemporary studio jewelry.
The Museum Herakleidon was founded in 2004 by Mr and Mrs Firos and extends to two buildings in the historic district of Thissio, next to the Acropolis, the Ancient Agora and the Temple of Hephaestus. The first building is located at 16 Herakleidon str. and the second one 150 meters further, at 37 Ap. Pavlou str., one of the busiest pedestrian streets of Athens.
Atopos cvc, founded in 2003 by Vassilis Zidianakis and Stamos Fafalios, is a non-profit, cultural organisation interested in the expression and adornment of the human body. The word ‘atopos’, from the ancient Greek “άτοπος”, refers to that which is the strange, the unwonted, the eccentric and the unclassifiable.
The Pushkin Institute is the oldest and largest center in Greece for teaching and certifying the Russian language, as well as promoting Russian culture. The Institute is located in the center of Athens, and actively participates in contemporary educational and cultural life.
At the Pushkin Institute Russian language lessons are delivered to all ages, native and non-native Greek speakers. The Institute operates as a center for certifying knowledge of the Russian language, and it is the first center in the Western world to certify knowledge of Russian.
Educational programs, exhibitions, publications, conferences and lectures, aiming to enhance the values of parliamentarism and democracy, to offer high quality cultural and educational products as well as to enhance the relationship between citizens and the Parliament.
The Hellenic Children’s Museum (HCM) was established in 1987 and exists in order to help all children without exception to develop their skills.
The HCM
• Operates since 1994 the Children’s Museum of Athens with the collaboration of the “Culture, Sports & Youth Organization of the City of Athens”
• Designs, implements, documents and evaluates educational programs that support interactive learning at the Children’s Museum of Athens, at schools, at other museums and cultural sites all over Greece.
The Music Library of Greece ‘Lilian Voudouri’ is the largest music library in the country and was created in 1997 by the Friends of Music Society in order to become a resource center for music and the fine arts, able to support continuous research and multilevel educational programs. Unique among its kind in Greece and freely accessible to the public, the Library has been organized and continues to operate with the aim of addressing the needs of a wide range of users. The Library uses all modern information technologies which have been applied to the field of its activities.
The GFA is a non-profit cultural institution whose purpose is the research, collection, conservation and promotion of Greek and international film heritage. Situated in the now-emblematic area of Gazi and equipped with the latest technology, it is a modern centre for research and screening of films, fulfilling its dual role as a museum and digital library, but also nurturing a new generation of cinephiles.
The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art is a non-profit institution established in
Geneva in 1983. The Foundation engages in an extensive exhibition program that
promotes emerging as well as established artists and aims to broaden the audience
for contemporary art, and explore the connections between contemporary art and
culture.
The flexibility of DESTE’s exhibition schedule enables the Foundation to respond to
what is current in the art world, both nationally and internationally, and to embark on
