ITIR SOSYAL
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This museum seems to be a small fragment of the “national archeology museum” for the people who don’t like to read the text, or visit a museum of a large content with a bigger crowd. In this museum, there is a small number of artefacts but supported by videos etc, probably more a thing for families with kids.
I stayed in Athens a week, and visited the archeology museum 3 times, and I must say the art and the history represented there is unmatchable with the small exhibition here. The books, and the reproductions of Cycladic art in this museum shop is also of the items in the national archeology museum, they don’t have them inside. If I had have known this in advance, I probably would have skipped this visit.
I must also add, 18 Eur s for the entrance of such a small exhibition is insane, and this is probably the most expensive museum entrance I have paid.
In the temporary exhibition, there is a focus on the life of women over different periods of the history, which I find good. However, there is not much emphasis on the amazonomachy, and how the independent indigenous warrior women of the past were killed, oppressed and made house wives or hetairas by the patriarchal system of the Ancient Greek “democracy”.
In general, I would like to express my cordial thanks to the archaeologists who worked in difficult circumstances to make those pieces available to the society. I wish they could benefit more of the insanely expensive ticket prices we pay to see such human heritage they excavated for us.