Museum
of Engravings and Graphic Arts
The course of the Ionian Bank, throughout its 150 years of life,
has run parallel to the course of modern Greek engraving. To celebrate
this anniversary, the Bank decided to create a collection of engravings
and graphic arts, with the intention of founding a Museum to house
this collection, which would cover the lack of such an institution
in Greece.
Today,
over 3000 works of Greek engravers have been collected as well
as 300 books and other objects related to graphic arts. The present
administration of the Ionian Bank has secured a building, an attractive
neoclassical building in Aghias Philotheis Street near the Cathedral
church Athens, to house the collection and is proceeding to the
foundation of the first Museum of Engravings and Graphic Arts
in Greece, one of the very few in Europe.
The
Museum aims to cover the entire spectrum of modern Greek engraving
as well as that of foreign artists who have chosen subjects related
to Greece.
Opening hours and admission
Ionian Bank, 10 Aghia Filothei Street – Mitropoleos Square
Syntagma - Monastiraki
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