Ziller-Loverdos Mansion in Athens opens to visitors
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An “architectural jewel for Athens”, the Ziller-Loverdos Mansion on Mavromichali street, opened to the public last week.
The three storey mansion was built by famous German architect Ernst Ziller in 1885. He resided there with his family until 1912.
“I think that most Athenians would not have seen that there is such a building on Mavromichali Street, as for many years there were scaffolding and burlap. It is a special architecture, which was originally Ziller’s house which was bought by the banker Dionysios Loverdos. As an architecture, it has its own special characteristics, which make it, in combination with the transformations brought about by Dionysios Loverdos, a monument,” Greece’s Minister of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni said.
Greek Museums Reinvent Themselves During Lockdown
Credit: National Archaeological Museum in Athens
Greek museums, forced to shut their gates to the public in November of 2020, used lockdown time to find alternative ways to keep in touch with the public, carry out needed maintenance work, and expand their displays for the day when actual visits are allowed again.
Among them, the National Archaeological Museum of Athens is going full-force into the digital age with an ambitious project using EU funds allocated to Greece.
” width=”1080″>The Byzantine and Christian Museum is also setting up an annex in a historic mansion of downtown Athens.
3 May 2021 11:48am
Greek museums which were forced to shut their gates to the public in November, used lockdown time to find alternative ways to keep in touch with the public, and carry out needed maintenance work before lockdown.
Among them, the National Archaeological Museum (NAM) of Athens is going full-force into the digital age with an ambitious project using EU funds allocated to Greece, the Byzantine and Christian Museum is setting up an annex in a historic mansion of downtown Athens, the Piraeus Bank Group museums are throwing their weight behind podcasts of their specialized and dispersed museums that also cater to people with hearing and vision disabilities, and the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus is enthusiastically setting up a cinema division, with documentaries on antiquities that include two cartoon films.