A MESSAGE FROM THE NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM The National Hellenic Museum's first digital exhibition is now online!  Snapshots of a Life: The George Phillos Photograph Collection  places select photographs from The George Phillos Photograph Collection alongside other  photographs and objects from the National Hellenic Museum's collection. This means the exhibition draws entirely upon objects held in the National Hellenic Museum collection.   The Phillos photographs, largely taken between 1910-1930, provide a unique, candid record of life as experienced by a Greek American immigrant in the early twentieth century. This period was important in American history--and, consequently, in the Greek American story.   We look forward to welcoming you to this new NHM exhibition, right from the comfort of your own home. Click here to view the Digital Exhibition!

NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM'S NEW ONLINE CONTENT NOW AVAILABLE by TNH Staff published in The National Herald May 16, 2020 The National Herald has given HellenicGenealogyGeek.com permission to post articles that are of interest to our group. -------------------------------------------- CHICAGO – On June 24, the National Hellenic Museum (NHM) released information about its latest online content including a lecture, Virtual Book Group, and Social Media Initiatives.  The Greeks of Colonial Florida with Menios Papadimitriou, the latest installment in NHM’s online lecture series, NHM's Resident Scholar Dr. Katherine Kelaidis sits down with Menios Papadimitriou, a doctoral student at Fordham University working on the modern history of Orthodox Christianity. Papadimitriou discusses an early Greek settlement in colonial America. The lecture is available now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bFMfbQZR4EM .  Among NHM’s new Social Media Initiatives, NHM has launched several new recurring series t...

THE NHM LAUNCHES FREE ONLINE  COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES PORTAL published in The National Herald August 10, 2019 ----- To all our Hellenic Genealogy Geek members - This could make a huge difference when trying to communicate with relatives in Greece. -------------------------------------------- CHICAGO – Dedicated to holding significant memories of the Greek American experience and Hellenic legacy, the National Hellenic Museum (NHM) announced, on July 24 the launch of the NHM Collections & Archives Portal, which allows anyone to access the Museum’s catalogs online from anywhere by viewing digitized artifacts and archival materials.  With the largest collection of its kind in the world, including a rich repository of over 20,000 Greek-American artifacts, photos, historic newspapers, books, and an archive of over 450 recorded oral histories, the NHM serves as a resource at the center of the community’s past, present, and future.  Vis...

SNF SUPPORTED VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF GREEK IMMIGRATION TO CANADA OPENS authored by TNH Staff Published in The National Herald, June 8, 2019 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ MONTREAL – The official unveiling of Immigrec, an impressive and cutting edge project documenting Greek immigration in Canada, took place on May 24. The project is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and its heart is the virtual museum of Greek immigration which sets a new standard for the study of Greek diaspora communities.  The Virtual Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada is the outcome of a 2-year research effort (2017-2018) conducted by Immigrec, an interdisciplinary educational consortium, comprising research teams from four universities in Canada (McGill, Simon Fraser and York...

MUSEUM OF BYZANTINE CULTURE 2 Leoforos Stratou Thessaloniki 546 40 Greece Telephone +30 231 086 8570 Website:  www.mbp.gr The year 2014 is a landmark as it represents the anniversary of twenty years since the Museum opened its doors for the first time on September 11th 1994 with the exhibition ‘Byzantine Treasures of Thessaloniki. The return journey’.  This way the Museum of Byzantine Culture was inaugurated by the Prime Minister. That exhibition with the inspired title marked the return of the Byzantine antiquities, on the 14th of June 1994*, after eighty years in the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens where they have been transferred in 1916. The exhibition also marked the end of a long effort for the foundation of a Byzantine Museum in Macedonia and specifically in Thessaloniki which is connected with persons and events of the recent and contemporary history of the Greek state. Introduction to the permanent exhibition The eleven rooms that comprise ...

MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT GREEK, BYZANTINE ICONS Published in the Orthodox Observer, May - June 2018 Clinton, Mass. - The Museum of Russian Icons will present the first major exhibition on Icons of the Hellenic World  from June 22 to Oct. 21. The exhibition focuses exclusively on Greek and Byzantine iconography and will delve deeply into the links and the continuity of Greek art and culture from Late Antiquity, through Byzantium, to the present.  "We are very grateful to Emmanuel Tiliakos for the opportunity to showcase his extraordinary collection, giving contemporary viewers a window into the richness of Greek culture and history," says Museum of Russian Icons CEO and Curator Kent Russell.  "Though icons are considered works of art, they are important cultural and religious relics.  As they are handed down through generations, icons are often the only surviving testimonies of places and peoples long gone." Largely comprised of icons created aft...

HELLENIC MUSEUM, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia -  https://www.hellenic.org.au/ ---------- Contact Information: Location:  Former Royal Mint Building, 280 William Street, Melbourne (opposite Flagstaff station) Hours:  Open Seven Days a Week - Monday to Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Museum Admission Fees Apply ---------- Australia's Hellenic Museum was inaugurated in April 2007. ​ Occupying one of the country's landmark buildings, the Museum has taken on an identity of its own in the former Royal Mint building. Since its inception, the Hellenic Museum has continued to build and maintain its collections. Today, hundreds of objects spanning over 8,000 years of Hellenic history are on view at any given time in the Museum's galleries. ​ In 2013, the Hellenic Museum entered into a landmark 10-year agreement with the Benaki Museum, Athens. In 2014, the Hellenic Museum opened the exhibition ' Gods, Myths and Mortals ', a snapshot of Hellenic-civ...

Tegea Folklore Museum If you want to discover the unique tradition of the Greek Folk, you have to visit the Tegea Folklore Museum. It’s open since 1996 and it’s accommodated in a building that belonged to the former Housekeeping School of Tegea. It offers a perfect presentation of the everyday life within the region, which makes you grasp the culture and the tradition of the place that you’re visiting. It’s a very important educational asset in the area and it welcomes you in the best way possible. Important Exhibits: Objects of folklore art, such as utensils used in everyday life, traditional weavings and clothes, local costumes, embroideries, looms, old typewriters and calculators, scales, radios, photo collections, exhibits from the alumni of the Home Economics School, workshops’ reenactments of traditional professions, a reenactment of a traditional house, the Olympic torch from the first Olympic Games that symbolizes the spirit of the area. Don’t Miss: The 16 pictur...

A NEW MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS OPENS IN WASHINGTON Published in The National Herald, July 8-14, 2017 Issue Authored by Steve Frangos TNH Staff Writer ------------------------------ I am excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ ----------------------- The announcement has been made. The Greek-American Historical Museum of Washington State has just launched its latest effort at preservation. This is its “museum without walls” initiative. The concept is simple: “For the past year the items in the Greeks in Washington collection have been photographed and included in a searchable database. The photos and descriptions of these items are divided into ten categories (textiles, costumes and clothing, photos/slides, documents, audio recordings, film/video/DVD, bound volumes/printed materials, newspapers, a...

This is an update to my August 21, 2016 posting   FROM THE JUNE 11, 2017 NEWSLETTER -  MAJOR STEP FORWARD FOR THE "MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS" For the past year the items in the Greeks in Washington collection have been photographed and included in a searchable database.  The photos and descriptions of the items in ten categories (textiles, costumes and clothing, photos/slides, documents, audio recordings, film/video/DVD, bound volumes/printed materials, newspapers, art work and other artifacts).  They are now accessible from the home page www.greeksinwashington.org.  Simply "click" on  THE COLLECTION  and follow the prompt. Since 2009, date, the Museum has received over 600 items that serve to help share the stories of the Greek experience in Washington State.  These items have been donated or loaned to the Museum and are cataloged and preserved in the Museum archive.  Items are organized by category.  There is also a special se...

FOLK ARTS MUSEUM AND LIBRARY Village of Dimitsana, Gortynia, Greece Dimitsana is a stone-built village with remarkable mansions, most of which are now restored. It is a typical sample of  Gortynia 's architecture and it is registered as a traditional one. Dimitsana's Library contains today about 35,000 books, manuscripts and documents. In Dimitsana's Museum, housed in the Library, there are collections of weaving, looms and handicrafts and an archaeological one. wikipedia.org & gtp.gr

GREECE'S FORGOTTEN LUCRATIVE TOBACCO ERA Published in The National Herald, August 22-28, 2015 Issue Authored by Anthe Mitrakos ------------------------------ We are excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ ----------------------- KAVALA, GREECE – Greece is in modern days is surely known for producing a number of local goods like feta cheese, Chios masticha, and the best olive oil in the world. But not many people know that the country was once host to a booming tobacco production industry. In fact, in the 19th and 20th centuries, the economies of a number of Greek cities relied almost exclusively on the cultivation and sale of tobacco leaves, according to a Johns Hopkins University Press research paper by National Technical University of Athens Associate Professor Maria Renetzi.  In the ...

Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation (PFF) V. Alexandrou 1, 21 100 Nafplion This looks fascinating.  I would like to spend a whole day there, but for now we can all take the 360 virtual tour which consists of 8 different sections -  http://www.pli.gr/en/content/360-tour-v-papantoniou-museum History of the Foundation The “V. Papantoniou” Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation (PFF) is a privately supported foundation, based in Nafplion. It was founded in 1974, and its aim is the research, preservation, study and presentation of the material culture of the Peloponnese, as well as of the whole of Greece. It is housed in the residence of Vas. Papantoniou, which was converted into a museum in 1981. This same year with its exhibition “The Production, Elaboration and Use of Natural Fibres in Greece” the Museum won the 1981 Museum of the Year main Award (EMYA) “...because of the manifold activities of the Foundation in the area of tradition, the quality and size of its colle...

FOLK ARTS MUSEUM OF VYTINA Click on the above link to view 9 photographs of the museum. The Folklore Museum is housed in Vitina new eisogeio stone building on top of the central square of  Vitina  .  In a comfortable and very well kept area of 180 sq.m. 650 out old objects of everyday life: pastoral, agricultural and logging tools, old machines, complete cobbler, religious items, utensils, irons, old lamps, clay pots, clothing, complete loom, uniforms, old photos, old furniture etc. . The museum belongs to the municipality of Vitina.

http://www.koraeslibrary.gr/en/ The  Koraes Library of Chios  is one of the largest in Greece with a significant collection exceeding 130,000 volumes. It was established in 1792, as a department of the Great Chian School. The first books were donated by Adamantios Koraes and many of his friends, mostly Greek living abroad.  Before the Massacre of Chios in 1822 it was the most important library of the whole region. After a major earthquake in 1881 it was moved into a new building where it has remained ever since. Initially the building had only one floor; the second one was added after 1948 by the major donator Philip Argenti. Important upgrades and additions took place in the period 1975-78, again with initiatives by the Argenti family. Besides its founder,  Adamantios Koraes , also many other Chians donated their personal book collections to the Library. Important donators include  Ioannis Andreadis ,  Zorzis and Tarse Dromokaitou, Alex. Pachnos, Ge...