The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the Friends’ Association of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, continues its much-loved series of scholarly events, “Wednesdays at the Museum – Archaeological Lectures.”
The series aims to familiarize the Thessaloniki audience with new archaeological and interdisciplinary research and its findings.
This November, we welcome Dr. Domna Terzopoulou, Head of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Evros, who will deliver the lecture:
“The Museum Landscape of the Regional Unit of Evros.”
Abstract
Over the past decade, with the support of European co-funded programmes, the museum landscape of the Regional Unit of Evros has changed dramatically, as three new museums of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture are now in operation in the region: the Byzantine Museum of Didymoteicho, the Archaeological Museum of Alexandroupolis, and the Archaeological Museum of Samothrace. The first two are housed in newly constructed buildings, while the completion of the re-exhibition of the Archaeological Museum of Samothrace was preceded by the renovation of its old building, which had been in operation since the 1950s.
The Byzantine Museum of Didymoteicho opened to the public in 2016. Its exhibition presents Byzantine antiquities from across the Aegean Thrace region, alongside a special section dedicated to monuments of the Imperial period from Roman Plotinopolis, a city founded by Emperor Trajan on the hill of Agia Petra in Didymoteicho.
The Archaeological Museum of Alexandroupolis, inaugurated in June 2022, houses finds from excavations of settlements and cemeteries in the Regional Unit of Evros, dating from the Neolithic to the Late Roman period.
The Archaeological Museum of Samothrace, inaugurated in 2024, is dominated by finds from the long-term excavations at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, one of the largest mystery cult sanctuaries of antiquity. The exhibition’s central aim is to familiarize visitors with the mystery cult and the initiation process. However, emphasis has also been placed on exhibits from other sites that illustrate the island’s continuous cultural trajectory through time.
Finally, during the current period, a new exhibition space is under construction near Orestiada, at the site of the Mikri Doxipara–Zoni tumulus, funded by the NSRF 2021–2027. The exhibition will showcase a unique funerary complex in Greece: five 2nd-century AD carriages buried together with their draught animals, two horse burials, and four cremations accompanied by numerous grave goods.
The lecture will be live-streamed via the following link.
https://new.diavlos.grnet.gr/el/room/4998/event/6902
