SYMPOSIUM under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism

PART 1 Beyond the Acropolis Museum Ideology, Museology, Architecture 13-14 ΜαY 2011 | THESSALONIKI new Building of the Research Committee, A.U.Th.

PART 2 The Acropolis Museum Ideology, Museology, Architecture 20-21-22 MAY 2011 | ΑTHENS | 138, PirΕΟs street

ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS Aristotle University of Thessaloniki RESEARCH COMMITTEE Faculty of Engineering School of Architecture INTERUNIVERSITY Postgraduate Programme "Museology" THE ACROPOLIS MUSEUM BENAKI MUSEUM MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART Fulbright Foundation in Association of Greek Museologists WITH THE COLLABORATION OF ICOM-GREECE Museums 2011 M A Y 11 Under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism

on the occasion of the International Museums Day 2011

PART 1 13-14 Μαυ 2011 | THESSALONIKI new Building of the Research Committee, A.U.Th. Tritis Septemvriou Street, red building next to the StudentS' CANTEEN

PART 2 20-21-22 Μαυ 2011 | ΑTHENS Benaki Museum | 138, PirΕΟs street

Aristotle Faculty of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki University of Engineering RESEARCH COMMITTEE Thessaloniki Museums 11 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki The symposium is part of a series of annual symposia that the I.P.P. 1 John Mylopoulos Rector "Museology" has been organizing since 2002, related to museological issue. George Papakostas Professor of Architecture, Head of the School of Architecture The organization of this symposium responds to the need for cooperation between on the one hand, the academic analytical discourse on museums, which Matoula Scaltsa Professor of History of Art and Museology, Head of the poses questions and explores their theoretical consequences, and on the other, Interuniversity Postgraduate Programme in "Museology", President of the the synthetic discourse of applied museum planning and design. This need is an Association of Greek Museologists essential part of the discipline of museology itself. This symposium attempts to address it by allowing the University to try out its theoretical requirements in Acropolis Museum the field of museum practice, and museum practitioners to put their certainties Dimitris Pantermalis Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, Aristotle University to the test of scholarly defense. of Thessaloniki, Board President of the Acropolis Museum The Acropolis Museum, a Greek cultural project unique in scale and ambition, Benaki Museum provides an excellent testing ground for such an interaction. Political parties, Angelos Delivorrias Emeritus Professor of History of Art, National and civil society, the academic community, professional and scholarly organizations, Kapodistrian University of , Director of the Benaki Museum Greek intellectuals - from the moment Melina Merkouri expressed the mandate Stavros Vlizos Archeologist, Ionian University for the return of the Parthenon marbles to the exhibition of the Acropolis sculptures today- have all helped shape the framework of the discussion. The Museum of Cycladic Art variety and complexity of architectural, museological and ideological issues Sandra Marinopoulos Board President of the Museum of Cycladic Art associated with such a project are hardly unique — certainly not internationally, Nikolaos Stambolidis Professor of Archaeology, University of Crete, Director of yet not even for modern Greek cultural politics. the Museum of Cycladic Art Taking the new Acropolis Museum as their springboard, seven organizations join Fulbright Foundation in Greece forces under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Association of Greek Museologists (A.G.Μ.) take the floor in both Thessaloniki and Athens, with invited speakers who will Artemis Zenetou Art Historian-Museologist, Executive Director of the Fulbright discuss the rationalization and modernization of cultural and State institutions, Foundation in Greece, Vice President of the Association of Greek Museologists as well as issues of cultural policies and national cultural strategy at large, from a museological, architectural and ideological point of view. Distinguished scholars from Greece and abroad will interact with scholars from the biggest University in the country, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from the WITH THE COLLABORATION OF greatest museums (like the Acropolis Museum, the Benaki Museum and the Museum of Cycladic Art), from the Interuniversity Postgraduate Programme ICOM-GREECE in Museology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University Teti Hatjinicolaou Historian-Ethnologist, Directorate of Cultural Heritage, of Western Macedonia, the Fulbright Foundation in Greece and the Society of Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, President of ICOM-Greece Greek Museologists, in cooperation with the Greek Section of the ICOM.

In the past, the Acropolis Museum has been the subject of heated controversy. ACADEMIC COMMITTEE With our symposium, we are inviting people to an open and intensive public discussion, aiming at a sober scholarly assessment of the project, from many different viewpoints and disciplines. The organizations supporting Kostas Arvanitis Lecturer of Museology, Centre for Museology, University of this symposium, as well as its Organizing and Academic Committees are Manchester, UK positive that the resulting discourse will serve to enrich our knowledge and Ersi Filippopoulou Architect, Teaching staff at the University of Patras, former understanding of the complexity of museological planning and design of both Director of the Directorate of Museum Planning at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture the new Acropolis building and its exhibitions. Giorgos Hourmouziadis Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki The Organizing and Academic Committee Clio Karageorghis Architect, direction architecture, muséographie et technique, The Louvre, France 1The symposia that have been organised so far by the Interuniverstity Postgraduate Studies in "Museology", Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/ University of Western Kostas Kotsakis Professor of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Macedonia, Greece are: Museums '02: Management in Contemporary Museums Antonis Liakos Professor of History, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Museums '03: 1. Museum Bulidings in Greece and Abroad 2. The New Acropolis Panagyotis Tournikiotis Professor of History and Theory of Architecture, Museum: The Awards/ Museums '04: Museum Education-Cultural Management- National Technical University Architectural Programming and Planning of Museums and Exhibitions/ Museums '05: On Collection Management/ Museums '06: Cultural Studies and Visual Arts/ Panos Tzonos Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Aristotle University of Museums '07: Museology, Museologists and Museums: Contributing to Thessaloniki's Thessaloniki Development/ Museums '08: Women in Museums/ Museums '09: Museums' Accessibility/ Museums '10: Tracing Contemporary Museology LOCATION PROGRAMME PART 1

THESSALONIKI New Building of the Research Committee, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Beyond the Acropolis Museum Tritis Septemvriou Street (Red Building, next to the Students' Canteen) Ideology, Museology and Architecture ATHENS Benaki Museum, 138 Pireos & Andronikou St. FRIDAY 13 ΜAυ | THESSALONIKI

COMMUNICATION AND SUPPORT New Building of the Research Committee Aristotle University of Thessaloniki CONTACT [email protected] 09:15 - 10:00 Registration Benaki Museum Stavros Vlizos Archeologist, Ionian University 10:00 - 10:40 Opening Speeches 138 Pireos & Andronikou St. Ioannis Mylopoulos Rector, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki T. 210 345 3111 George Papakostas Head of the School of Architecture, Aristotle University [email protected] | www.benaki.gr of Thessaloniki Matoula Scaltsa Head of the Interuniverstity Postgraduate Programme Acropolis Museum "Museology" 15, Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, 117 42 Athens T. 210 900 0900 Ideology and Authenticity [email protected] | www.theacropolismuseum.gr Coordination: Kostas Kotsakis

Museum of Cycladic Art 10:40 Eleonora Skouteri-Didaskalou Assistant Professor of Folklore and Eugenia Christodoulakou Head of Communication and Development Social Anthropology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 4, Neophytou Douka str.,106 74 Athens "'Là oύ dialoguent les cultures'. The Branly Case" Τ. 210 723 4931, 722 8321-3 www.cycladic.gr 11:00 Michael Fotiadis Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Ioannina I.P.P. "MUSEOLOGY" Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, "The Demand for Authenticity" UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA Youli Koletti Secretary I.P.P. "Μuseology", A.U.Th. 11:20 Nassia Chourmouziadi Architect-Museologist, Aristotle University of Afroula Bousoulenga Secretary I.P.P. "Μuseology", A.U.Th. Thessaloniki University Campus, 541 24 Thessaloniki "Ancient Things and Contemporary Images. The Lost Materiality of the Past" Τ. 2310 99 4364, 99 5547 [email protected] | http://ma-museology.web.auth.gr 11:40 - 12:00 Discussion Lydia Chatziiakovou ArtBox, Creative Arts Management T. 2310 224 626 | [email protected] 12:00 - 12:30 Coffee Break Association of Greek Museologists Symbols and Stereotypes Korina Gavala Historian-Museologist, [email protected] Coordination: Eleonora Skouteri-Didaskalou Chrysa Zarkali Archaeologist-Museologist, [email protected] http://greekmuseologists.wordpress.com 12:30 Andreas Andreou Assistant Professor, Department of Primary Education, University of Western Macedonia. Kostas Kasvikis Lecturer, Fulbright Foundation Department of Primary Education, University of Western Macedonia Assistant to the Executive Director Angy Fotaki "The Acropolis and its Monuments in Primary Education Textbooks of the Period 6 Vassilissis Sophias Avenue, 106 74 Athens 1974-2011: Archaeological, Ideological and Symbolic Representations of a Τ. 210 724 1811 'Glorious Past'" [email protected] | www.fulbright.gr 12:50 Eleni Stefanou Archaeologist-Museologist, Adjunct Lecturer, ICOM-GREECE University of the Aegean Maro Alexaki Archaeologist-Museologist "The New Acropolis Museum as seen through the Athens Sunday Press (2009)" 15 Ag. Asomaton Str., 105 53 Athens T. 210 323 9414 [email protected] | www.istomediahost.gr/icom 13:10 Voula Nitsiou Archaeologist-Museologist, Consultant for Restoration of Monuments, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki "Contemporary Museological Principles in Practice" Saturday 14 Μαυ | THESSALONIKI

13:30 - 14:10 Discussion 09:15 - 10:00 Registration 14:10 - 15:00 Lunch Break The Museum at the Time of the Archive and Spectacle Cultural Policy and Management I Coordination: Lia Yoka Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Art and Culture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Coordination: George Tagaras Professor, Director of the Laboratory of Business Administration, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 10:00 Anselm Jappe Professor of Philosophy, Fine Arts School of Frosinone, Italy "On the 'Aura' of Old Museums and the 'Experience' of New Ones" 15:00 Maria Vigli Dr. of Art History "Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (Paris) and the New Acropolis Museum: 10:20 Dimitris Papanikolaou Lecturer in Modern Greek, Cultural and Gender Museological Practices and Diachrony. Connotations" Studies, University of Oxford, UK "The Museum at the time of the Archive" 15:20 Kalliopi Fouseki Science Museum London and Adjunct Lecturer, Open University of Cyprus 10:40 - 11:10 Discussion "The Role of Negotiation in Heritage Management: The Case of the New Acropolis Museum" Architectural and Exhibition Space TheorY and PractiCE I 15:40 Katerina Mavromichali Archaeologist-Museologist, Curator at the State Coordination: Dimitris Papanikolaou Museum of Contemporary Art "Diaspora, Nostalgia and the ‘Global Museum’: The Management of Cultural 11:10 Aris Sarafianos Lecturer of Art History, University of Ioannina Heritage towards a New Cultural Ethos" "Taking the Optimal Distance from the Parthenon Sculptures: Managing Architectural Sculpture and the Making of History in a Museum" 16:00 - 16:40 Discussion 11:30 Vana Tentokali Associate Professor, School of Architecture, 16:40 - 17:00 Coffe Break Aristotle University of Thessaloniki "Bernard Tschumi: 'Contextualizing the Concept'" Communication and Participation Coordination: Nineta Panantoniou Assistant Professor, Department of Preschool 11:50 - 12:20 Discussion Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 12:20 - 13:20 Lunch Break 17:00 Dimitra Zapri Educator-Museologist "Museum Visitors: Selection Processes and Evolution of the 'Species'" Architectural and Exhibition Space TheorY and PractiCE II 17:20 Irene Nakou Associate Professor, Department of Preschool Education, University of Thessaly Coordination: Vana Tentokali "'Great museums' and Contemporary Communication and Education Policies: Exploring Visitors' Attitudes towards the New Acropolis Museum'" 13:20 Styliani Lefaki Lecturer of Architecture, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 17:40 - 18:20 Discussion "Experimentations with Transparency"

18:30 Opening of the Interuniversity Postgraduate Programme Student 13:40 Kali Tzortzi Archaeologist-Museologist, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Exhibition under the title: "...constructing memory...reconstructing Tourism, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Ioannina and University of Thessaly museology". An International Museum Day event. Foyer, Central Building of the "Space and Display: Relations of Independence, Correspondence or Interaction" Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Opening Speeches Vice-rector Prof. S. Kouidou-Andreou, Head of the School of 14:00 - 14:20 Discussion Architecture Prof. G. Papakostas Architectural and Exhibition Space PROGRAMME PART 2 TheorY and PractiCE III Coordination: Panagiotis Tzonos The Acropolis Museum 14:20 Nikos Kyriakopoulos Architect, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism Ideology, Museology, Architecture "Implementing a Μuseological-Εxhibition Project in a Museum Building: A Demanding Symbiosis" Friday 20 Μαυ | Athens 14:40 Agis Papadopoulos Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Nikos Vranikas, Architect, Museum of Benaki Museum | 138, PirΕΟs street Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki 09:15 - 10:00 Registration "Energy Management in Museum Buildings: Potential and Restrictions" 10:00 - 11:30 Opening speeches 15:00 Despina Picopoulou-Tsolaki Archaeologist Pavlos Yeroulanos* Hellenic Minister of Culture and Tourism "Museum Accessibility: A Case of Misunderstanding" John Mylopoulos Rector, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Angelos Delivorrias Emeritus Professor of History of Art, National and 15:20 - 15:50 Discussion Kapodistrian University of Athens, Director of the Benaki Museum Dimitris Pantermalis Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, Aristotle University 15:50 - 16:20 Coffee Break of Thessaloniki, President of the Board of Trustees, The Acropolis Museum Cultural Policy and Management II Sandra Marinopoulos Board President of the Museum of Cycladic Art Artemis Zenetou Art Historian-Museologist, Executive Director of the Fulbright Συντονισμός: Matoula Scaltsa Foundation in Greece, Vice President of the Association of Greek Museologists Teti Hatjinicolaou Historian-Ethnologist, Directorate of Cultural Heritage, 16:20 Nikos Sisamakis Conservator and Visual Artist, Director of the Cultural Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, President of ICOM-Greece Laboratory AENAON George Papakostas Professor of Architecture, Head of the School of "The Concept of the 'Metropolitan Museum' as a Network for Integrated Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Management of Thematic Museums. The Case of Rhodes" Matoula Scaltsa Professor of History of Art and Museology, Head of the 16:40 Ioannis Poulios Consultant for Cultural Heritage Management Interuniversity Postgraduate Programme in "Museology", Aristotle University "The Acropolis Museum as Authentic Visitor 'Experience': Towards a New Model of Thessaloniki, President of the Association of Greek Museologists of Presenting Museums and Space" 11:30 - 12:10 Coffee Break 17:00 - 17:50 Discussion IDEOLOGY: INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICE Coordination: Angelos Delivorrias - Panos Tzonos 12:10 Dimitris Pantermalis Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Board President of the Acropolis Museum "The Acropolis Museum: Stereotypes and New Ideas" 12:30 Giorgos Hourmouziadis Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki "Museum: The Ideology of the Host and the Ideology of the Visitor" 12:50 Antonis Liakos Professor of History, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens "Museums. The Triangle: History, Ideology and the Sublime" 13:10 Daphne Voudouri Assistant Professor of Cultural Management, Panteion University "Institutions and Policies for Managing the Past: The Case of the New Acropolis Museum" 14:20 - 15:00 Discussion

15:00 - 16:00 Lunch Break * has been invited

IDEOLOGY: EXHIBITS AND MEANINGS MUSEOLOGY: EXHIBITION AND EXHIBITS Coordination: Dimitris Pantermalis - Matoula Scaltsa Coordination: Kostas Kotsakis - Kostas Arvanitis

16:00 Kostas Kotsakis Professor of Archaeology, Aristotle University 13:00 Pari Kalamara Dr. of History and Civilizations, Head, 23rd Ephorate of of Thessaloniki Byzantine Antiquities, Hellenic Μinistry of Culture and Tourism "New Museums of Ideas or New Ideas for the Museums?" "The Permanent Exhibition of the New Acropolis Museum: Αn Event of Significance" 16:20 Dimitrios Plantzos Assistant Professor of Archaeology, University of Ioannina 13:20 Andromache Gazi Lecturer of Museology and Cultural Management, "The New Acropolis Museum and the 'Elginization' of the Parthenon Marbles" Panteion University "The museum’s Self-righteous Gaze: A Critical Look at the New Acropolis 16:00 - 16:40 Discussion Museum’s Permanent Exhibition"

16:40 - 17:40 Round Table 13:40 Matoula Scaltsa Professor of History of Art and Museology, Aristotle Invited Discussants: University of Thessaloniki Myrsini Zorba Teaching staff of Cultural Theory and Policy, Postgraduate "Exhibits and Meanings. Exhibition and Meaning" Programme "Management of Cultural Management", Open University, former member of the European parliament 14:00 - 14:40 Discussion Nikos Patsavos Architect, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete 14:40 - 16:00 Lunch Break Yiannis Stavrakakis Associate Professor of Political Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki MUSEOLOGY: "USUAL" PRACTICES AND "UNFAMILIAR" ONES Coordination: Artemis Zenetou - Stavros Vlizos 19:30 Guided Tour at the Acropolis Museum 16:00 Aspasia Louvi-Kizis Dr. of Byzantine Archaeology and Art, General Director of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Saturday 21 Μαυ | ATHENS "In this City they Have Gone Crazy: They are all Driving in the Opposite Direction"

09:15 - 10:00 Registration 16:20 Kostas Arvanitis, Lecturer of Museology, University of Manchester, UK "The Acropolis Museum in the Web 2.0 age" MUSEOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS AND EXHIBITS Coordination: Ersi Filippopoulou - Clio Karageorghis 16:40 - 17:20 Discussion

10:00 Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the Free 17:20 - 18:20 Round Table University of Berlin, former Director of the Antikensammlung-Staatliche Museen Invited Discussants: zu Berlin Kostas Dallas Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Media and "Metropolitan Archaeological and on Site Museums: The Case of the Acropolis Culture, Panteion University Museum" Angelos Delivorrias Emeritus Professor of History of Art, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Director of the Benaki Museum 10:20 Christina Vlassopoulou Archaeologist, 1st Ephorate of Prehistoric and Maria Repousi Associate Professor of History and History Education, Aristotle Classical Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism University of Thessaloniki "Τhe Exhibition of the New Acropolis Museum: Associations with Archaeological Eleonora Skouteri-Didaskalou Assistant Professor of Folklore and Social Research" Anthropology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Konstantinos Tsoukalas Emeritus Professor of Social Theory and Sociology, 10:40 Stamatia Eleftheratou, Archaeologist, Head, 1st Ephorate of Prehistoric University of Athens and Classical Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism Artemis Zenetou Art Historian-Museologist, Executive Director of the Fulbright "The Acropolis Museum: Designing its Ground Floor Exhibition" Foundation in Greece, Vice President of the Association of Greek Museologists

11:20 - 12:00 Discussion

12:00 - 13:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 Round Table Invited Discussants: Sunday 22 Μαυ | ΑTHENS Tasos Biris Professor of Architecture, National Technical University Clio Karageorghis Architect, direction architecture, muséographie et technique, The Louvre, France 09:15 - 10:00 Registration Savvas Kontaratos Emeritus Professor of History and Theory of Space, Athens School of Fine Arts ARCHITECTURE: dialemmaS AND PRACTICE Tasos Kotsiopoulos Professor of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Coordination: Savvas Kontaratos - George Papakostas George Tzirtzilakis Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Thessaly

10:00 Ersi Filippopoulou Architect and Jurist, former Director of Museums’ Planning and Design at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Teaching staff, School of Architecture, University of Patras "Extra-architectural Influences on Architecture: 11+1 Milestones on the Path to the Current Museum"

10:20 George Panetsos Professor of Architecture, Head of the School of Architecture, University of Patras "The Acropolis Museum in Context"

10:40 Bernard Tschumi Architect, Professor, Columbia University, U.S.A. "Conceptualizing Context"

11:00 Panayotis Tournikiotis Professor of Theory of Architecture, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens "A Project of Vacancy"

11:20 - 12:40 Discussion

12:00 - 13:00 Coffee Break

ARCHITECTURE: THE "OUTSIDE" AND THE "INSIDE" Coordination: Antonis Liakos - Panayotis Tournikiotis

13:00 George Papakostas Professor of Architecture, Head of the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki "Acropolis Museum: Architecture in Excess"

13:20 Agnes Couvelas Architect "The New Acropolis Museum: Spatial Relations and Symbolisms"

13:40 Panos Tzonos Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki "The New Acropolis Museum and the Museum Experience"

14:00 Charalampos Mpouras Architect, Archaelogist, Professor Emeritus of the National Technical University of Athens, President of the Committee for the Preservation of the Acropolis Monuments "Architectural Exhibits in Museums"

14:20 - 15:00 Discussion

15:00 - 16:00 Lunch Break