In October 2016 GNO's Alternative Stage launches an cross-cultural choir workshop which is aimed at Athens' permanent and not-so-permanent residents: refugees, migrants and locals.
Its cross-cultural focus allows for members to freely exchange traditional musical repertoires on equal terms, and also provides a framework within which basic Greek language can be learned.
The Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, is the home of contemporary culture. Τhe point of intersection for bold ideas, art-forms and people exploring the borderlines between science, art and society.
NEON is a nonprofit organization that works to bring contemporary culture closer to everyone. It is committed to broadening the appreciation, understanding, and creation of contemporary art in Greece and to the firm belief that this is a key tool for growth and development. NEON, founded in 2013 by collector and entrepreneur Dimitris Daskalopoulos, breaks with the convention that limits the contemporary art foundation of a collector to a single place.
B & M Theocharakis Foundation For The Fine Arts And Music, close to Metro station Syntagma, is a cultural center that hosts temporary thematic exhibitions, concerts, educational programs and lectures.
The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (ΕΜΣΤ) began its operation in 2000. It is now permanently located at the former FIX brewery, the reconstruction of which was completed in February 2014. From 2003 until 2008, ΕΜΣΤ held exhibitions and events at the Athens Concert Hall, the Athens School of Fine Arts and in public spaces. Then from 2008 until 2015, it was hosted in a section of the Athens Conservatory building. Finally, in May 2015, the museum moved to its permanent premises, where from October, 2016, to January, 2019, it used the temporary exhibition spaces.
The National Library of Greece is the guardian of the national publishing collections. The collection of 5,400 manuscripts (dated from 9 th to 19th century), is one of the largest collections worldwide. The National Library aims to serve as an international center of Greek studies and as a pillar of conservation and dissemination of Greek civilization. In 2017 the National Library of Greece will be relocated to its new premises at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.
The Museum of the City of Athens is housed in a neoclassical building of 1833-34. The Collections of 40,000 items ranging from antiquity to the 21st century include books, manuscripts, porcelains, musical instruments, furniture, paintings, engravings, utensils, fabrics, embroidery and photographs.
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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), the University with the widest presence and authority in the country, has established its own tradition of science and creative participation in Greek society.
The National Glyptotheque is housed in two renovated historic buildings of 1900, formerly served as royal stables, located in the Hellenic Army Park of Goudi. One of the buildings houses part of the permanent sculpture collection from the 19th and 20th centuries, a selection illustrating the history of modern Greek sculpture. The surrounding two-acre area is an open-air sculpture museum.
The National Archaeological Museum is the largest museum in Greece and one of the world's great museums. Although its original purpose was to secure all the finds from the nineteenth century excavations in and around Athens, it gradually became the central National Archaeological Museum and was enriched with finds from all over Greece. Its abundant collections, with more than 11,000 exhibits, provide a panorama of Greek civilization from the beginnings of Prehistory to Late Antiquity.
