The Acropolis Museum is celebrating its birthday with a callout to visitors to see its exhibition program ‘Των Αθήνηθεν άθλων’ from 20 June 2022 until 8 January 2023.
As part of the exhibition, the Acropolis Museum will present the Panathenaic amphorae from Toronto, Canada that have returned to their birthplace, Athens.
This Acropolis exhibition will take place simultaneously with the presentation ‘From Athens to Toronto: A Greek Masterpiece Revealed’ at the Royal Ontario Museum where the Acropolis Kore 670 has been on display since March 2022.
The bilateral events are organised as part of cultural exchanges between the Acropolis Museum and other great museums abroad, contributing to the enhancement of friendly relations between the people of different countries.
The two vessels from the Royal Ontario Museum will be exhibited in the Parthenon Gallery, relating this way with the great temple’s frieze, where Pheidias and his collaborators artfully carved the Panathenaic procession.
The 2,500 year-old vessels are Panathenaic amphorae, which were filled with oil and given as a prize to the victors of contests held during the festival of the Great Panathenaia. One side is decorated with the figure of Athena Promachos and the other with scenes related to the games for which they were given as prizes.
Within the context of this event, at 3pm daily, visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy music by the το Woodwind Quintet of the Athens State Orchestra.
On Wednesday 29 June 2022, at 7pm, the Museum will welcome Royal Ontario Museum Director, Mr. Josh Basseches, who will give a speech in the auditorium entitled ‘ROM Immortal: Transforming Museum Experiences for the 21st Century’.
