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Cartoon
Museum
The Cartoon Museum has been in operation since 1994. It was founded
and it operates in collaboration with a group of Greek cartoonists.
The museum has a permanent exhibition of cartoons, mainly caricatures,
comic strips and other kinds of sketches by Greek and foreign
cartoonists. There is also a library and archives.
The
Cartoon Museum is housed in the neoclassical Villa Treiber near
the New City Hall. Treiber was a German philhellene who came to
Greece after the Greek War of Independence in 1821 and remained
in the country, later becoming a chief medical officer of the
Greek Army.
Some
of the most important exhibits of the museum are:
•
Comic strips by G. Grammatopoulos: "Proteus and Andromeda",
on a script by B. Rotas, from the
series "Illustrated Classics" published by Atlantis.
• Caricatures of cartoonists of the early years of the 20th
century, from the satirical review 'Satanas'.
• Cover of the periodical "Phanos" by Phokion
Dimitriades.