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Xenia Politou, Aegeas AMKE Curator of Modern Greek Culture, Benaki Museum, 7 November 2020 Introduced by George Manginis, Academic Director, Benaki Museum

On Wednesday 13 May 2020 the Benaki Museum welcomes the exhibition Robert McCabe – Katerina Lymperopoulou ‘The last monk of Strofades’.

In this new episode of the CLOSE UPS series, Mary Vergos, Head of the Benaki Toy Museum, presents Leopold Lambert’s Automaton ‘Little Girl with Broken Doll / Petite fille au polichinelle cassé’ and makes reference to the Automata that were first made by engineers and watchmakers in the 16th century. Donated by Maria Argyriadi.

In the context of the Patrick & Joan Leigh Fermor House honorary fellowships programme, the Benaki Museum, in collaboration with the Centre of Modern Greece (Centrum Modernes Griechenland / CeMoG) of Freie Universität Berlin, has the pleasure and honour to host Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte, Professor of Theatre Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. During her stay in Kardamili, Professor Fischer-Lichte gave a lecture under the title  “Philhellenism and Theatromania in Germany since 1800”.                                                                 DONOR: ΤHE VASILICOS SANTORINI  

In this episode of the CLOSE UPS series, Irini Papageorgiou, Curator of the Prehistoric, Ancient Greek and Roman Collections of the Benaki Museum, discusses mourning rituals during the Geometric period, focusing on an impressive 8th-century BC Attic amphora, which is decorated with a scene of the laying out of the body of the dead.