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ORMYLIA (Small town) HALKIDIKI
54/97 Decree of the Municipal Council of Ormylia The purpose of this legal person
is to preserve our traditions and promote our culture. The Cultural Centre includes
subjects like the environment, health, sports, music, dance, theatre, cinema,
archaeology, photography etc.
THESSALONIKI (Town) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Tel: +30 2310 295170-1, 295149
Fax: +30 2310 295276
Tel: +30 2310 288036
Fax: +30 2310 226460
Tel: +30 2310 424132-3
Fax: +30 2310 412143
Tel: +30 2310 271195, 270972
Fax: +30 2310 271501
Tel: +30 2310 855255, 868186
Fax: +30 2310 855255
Tel: +30 2310 264668, 274167
Fax: +30 2310 274710
The Thessaloniki History Centre was created in 1983. Since its foundation
it has served the needs of the public and especially those of the scholarly community
according to the aims set out by its founders.
The Centre belongs to the Library Division of the Cultural Services
of the Municipality of Thessaloniki and seeks to coordinate relevant municipal
activities with those of other scholarly and cultural institutions of the city
and of individual scholars in the field of history.
Aims
The Centre has been designed to accomplish the following:
•To collect, preserve, catalogue and study primary and secondary sources
related to the history, cultural heritage, administrative, social and economic
life of Thessaloniki and its environs.
•To carry out and encourage research in the history of Thessaloniki and
Macedonia.
•To promote national and international interest in the history of Thessaloniki
and Macedonia and to encourage collaboration among scholars.
•To develop the interest of Thessaloniki residents in the history of their
city.
Operation
Since 1995 the Centre operates in its own building at Hippodrome Square,
donated by Anastasios and Ioulia Billis. It is supervised by an Advisory Committee,
which includes distinguished scholars and other men of letters of Thessaloniki.
This Committee, in turn, has been divided into sub-committees corresponding to
the various activities of the Centre.
Archive
The Thessaloniki History Centre houses the municipal historical archive.
Part of this archive is actually located in the Centre building and is gradually
becoming accessible to scholars. The Centre also possesses a number of important
private archival collections.
Library and collections
The Centre Library specializes in the city's historical literature.
It also contains an important photographic collection, a map collection and a
collection of cart-postals publicated in the beginning of the twentieth century.
The library is located on the second floor.
Other Events
The exhibition hall on the ground floor houses temporary exhibitions
of historical material on the city history, either from the Centre's own collection
or from private collections. The auditorium on the third floor is provided with
modern audio-visual equipment suitable for the organization of conferences and
lecture series.
Publications
The Centre publishes historical monographs, conference proceedings
and "Thessaloniki", an annual publication of scholarly articles related
to the history of the city from antiquity to the modern age.
Conferences
The Centre organizes conferences and other scholarly meetings alone
or in cooperation with other institutions of Thessaloniki and publishes their
proceedings.
Prospects
The Thessaloniki History Centre wishes to serve as the principal documentation
and research centre for the history of Thessaloniki and to highlight the features
of continuity in the city's past, no less than its metropolitan characteristics.
POLYKASTRO (Small town) KILKIS
THESSALONIKI (Town) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Tel: +30 2310 374800, 374806, 374816, 374826
Fax: +30 2310 221066
Tel: +30 2310 424132-3
Fax: +30 2310 412143
ARIDEA (Town) PELLA
Situated in a renewed rail-way station of Decauville type, which was
built by the allied forces in 1916 and operated until 1931, serving the needs
for transportation of people and goods in the region, it informs the visitor for
the flora richness and the main species of fauna that are hosted upon the massifs
of Voras, Pinovo and Tzena
which constitute the mountain arc of Almopia.
This text (extract) is cited October 2003 from the Pella
Prefecture Tourism Committee tourist pamphlet.
KILKIS (Town) MAKEDONIA CENTRAL
Tel: +30 23410 22477
Tel: +30 23410 76578
LOUTRA ARIDEAS (Settlement) PELLA
Tel: +30 23840 91300, 91388
Since 1991, a Physiographic-Folklore Museum has been operating in
the spa town, which even through it is small in size concentrates important findings
in the fields of physiography, paleontology, speleology and folklore-history.
Its palaeontological department is constantly enriched by the findings of the
researches in the speleological park; meanwhile, among the findings the bones
of the cave bear are included, findings of Hellenistic and Roman age, as well
as the objects connected to folklore.
This text (extract) is cited October 2003 from the Pella
Prefecture Tourism Committee tourist pamphlet.
NEA MOUDANIA (Small town) HALKIDIKI
Tel: +30 23730 26166
Fax: +30 23730 26166
Since his earliest presence on Earth, Man was affiliated to the sea.
For him it was a mystery, an object of adoration , a residence, a route of communication,
a symbol in art and religion.
Soon he turned to the sea seeking food, and invented hunting, and
later, fishing techniques. In a primitive stage he caught fish with his bare hands,
only later devising the first tools [spear, hook, net].In his endeavour to catch
large quantities of fish, man has invented a whole host of techniques. He created
vessels and sailed far from familiar coasts, to explore new places.
The exhibits of the Moudania Fisheries Museum trace this long relationship
between Man and sea.
Ancient anchors, spears for catching sea urchins, cotton nets and
longlines, fenders and mallets, planes, compasses, lamps and celestial spheres
-these are just some of the items on display. Three-dimensional models of fishing
techniques such as the pound net, the beach seine, purse seining; models of ships,
such as the oar-propelled trawler and the engine-powered trawler with karavoskaro
hull; rich illustrative material and plain texts to complement the rare items
of fishing equipment gathered here from all over Greece.
One of the Museum' s most extraordinary exhibits is the bouyiande,
a traditional fishing vessel constructed specially for the Museum on the basis
of testimony taken from elderly fishermen and craftsmen' s experience on traditional
vessels.
However, this is not all the Museum has to offer. A visitor has also
the chance to explore the magic world of the deep sea and discover more about
the underwater communities and marine organisms, from microscopic seaweed to large-bodied
animals. The wealth of the sea is illustrated through photographs, films, movies
and even an impressive old-fashioned diver' s suit.
The perfect structure and beauty of shellfish living in Greek waters
emerge from this colorful and unusual underwater world. One of the Museum`s highlights
is the collection of shells belonging to the Moudania Nautical Club- a collection
which represents 40 years of work by Stavros Kovrakis and the Club members.
The Fisheries Museum established by the Municipality of Moudania is
the only fisheries museum in Greece a country in which fishing is an old tradition.
Traditional techniques and tools are gradually lost. The fishing grounds
themselves are constantly shrinking. The purpose of the Museum is to converse
and reveal this important part of Greece' s culture heritage and also to increase
the public awareness of marine life and the need to converse it.
Yet the Museum does not only confine itself to conversing the testimony
of the collective memory. It also acts as a communication medium in a live and
dynamic environment, which attracts a visitor to participation , learning and
enjoyment, providing a variety of stimuli.
Apart from the exhibition area, there is also a room for multifunctional
uses[educational activities, meetings e.t.c. as well as a library reading room
available to visitors and researchers who may wish to use the facilities. The
concept of a fisheries museum belongs to the Moudania Nautical Club, which offered
the Municipality of Moudania an important collection of shells from Greek waters
and contributed to the conservation of old fishing equipment.
The Municipality of Moudania embraced the idea with enthusiasm and,
with funds from the EU PESCA programme and the support of the Ministry of Agriculture,
proceeded to implement the idea. The creation and organization of the Fisheries
Museum was entrusted to the Greek Biotope/ Wetland Centre [ EKBY ] of the Goulandris
Museum of Natural History. A team of specialists was set up to work toward this
goal. The Museum is housed in a modern, newly constructed building
at the western edge of the Municipality of Moudania in the Prefecture of Halkidiki.
Its position near the centre of the municipality and close to the main road from
Thessaloniki to Halkidiki
makes it easily accessible to visitors. The outside area of the Museum provides
a variety services for the visitor' s convenience.
Tel: +30 23730 23408
NEA TRIGLIA (Small town) HALKIDIKI
Tel: +30 23730 51105
Fax: +30 23730 51105
PELLA (Town) GIANNITSA
The building of the Archaeological Museum of Pella was intended for
a tourist pavilion. However, following changes to the interior of the building
in 1973, the finds from excavations in Pella were housed there. The current exhibition
was organized in 1988 and includes the following items on display: a variety of
artists' concepts, copies and moulds of artifacts, photographs, as well as topographic
surveys and architects' designs - all providing historical information about the
finds. The collections of the museum include artifacts discovered all over the
area of Pella, from residences, the agora, and shrines. Sections of inlaid floors
are also included.
Some of the most important exhibits are:
•Marble head representing Alexander the Great
•Mosaic floors detached from private residences
•Hoard of silver coins (Hellenistic period) and mintage by Macedonian Kings.
•Bronze statuette of Poseidon
•Moulds for the production of relief clay vases
This text is cited May 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs URL below.
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