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Byzantium and the Others in the First Millennium: An Empire of stability in a turbulent era
The exhibition of the Byzantine and Christian Museum emphasizes the role of the Byzantine Empire, between 300-1000 AD, as a pole of stability in a period of great uncertainties and conflicts (upheavals and reversals) in the European world as well as in the broader Mediterranean area. Through six thematic sections: “Transition”, “Worship”, “Intellectual Life”, “Warfare in the Western and Eastern Roman Empire” “Secular Life” and “Trade”, exhibition visitors will experience how people lived in the first millennium, how was their everyday life, what they feared, their dangers, what they liked, their occupations and their beliefs.
The exhibition is organized within the framework of the EU project “CEMEC - Connecting Early Medieval European Collections”, co-funded by the Creative Europe Framework, with the coordination of the Allard Pierson Museum and the University of Amsterdam. The project aims to use digital applications to enhance visitor experience of European museums’ medieval collections.
Steering Committee
Aikaterini Dellaporta
Faidra Kalafati
Maria Bormpoudaki
Lothar Altringer
Marieke van den Doel
Wim Hupperetz
Michael Schmauder
Advisors
Britt Claes
Emmy de Groot
Zsuzsanna Hajnal
Klaas van der Hoek
Inge Kalle-den Oudsten
Irene Montilla
Lindsay Morehouse
Lynda Mulvin
Elke Nieveler
Tineke Rooijakkers
Alberto Sánchez
Gergely Szenthe
Annemarieke Willemsen
Partners
Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam/University of Amsterdam
Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn/Universität Bonn
Royal Museums for Art and History, Brussels
Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest/Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest
University Institute of Iberian Archaeology, Jaén/Museo de Jaén
University College Dublin/National Museum of Ireland
DEN Knowledge Institute for Digital Culture, The Hague
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ITABC, Rome
E.V.O.C.A., Rome
NoHo, Dublin
Fraunhofer-IGD, Munich
Moobels, Hilversum
Audiovisual Productions
Architectura Virtualis GmbH, Darmstadt
CNR-ITABC, Rome
E.V.O.C.A., Rome
NoHo, Dublin
Moobels, Amsterdam
Contributors to the exhibition
Byzantine and Christian Museum
Scientific supervision – General Coordination
Dr. Aikaterini Dellaporta
Curators
Dr. Aikaterini Dellaporta, Dr. Eleni Manolessou, Dr. Kalliopi-Faidra Kalafati, Periandros Epitropakis, Sofia Gerogiorgi, Dr. Ioannis Theoharis, Efi Meramveliotaki, Sophia Bakogianni, Dr. Anna Pianalto, Dr. Patricia Skotti.
Text and Translations
Dr. Eleni Manolessou, Dr. Kalliopi-Faidra Kalafati, Sofia Gerogiorgi, Dr. Ioannis Theoharis, Efi Meramveliotaki, Sophia Bakogianni, Dr. Anna Pianalto, Dr. Patricia Skotti.
Architectural – Museographic Design
Spyros Nassainas
Conservators
Charalampos Papatheologou
Konstantina Apostolidou, Martha Arvaniti, Evangelos Arbilias, Georgia Doskari, Eleni Zarikou, Athanassios Kavassis, Aggeliki Kalamitsi, Artemis Kabouraki, Olga Kolefa, Georgios Korkovelos, Dimitris Margaritof, Vassilis Bakalis, Nikos Mylonas, Vassiliki Papakosta, Jenny Perdikari, Ioanna Stefani, Sofia Tzavara, Rena Tsivgouli, Dafni Filiou, Agathi Filippa
Educational Programmes
Periandros Epitropakis
Panos Vosnidis, Rania Fatola
Photography
Nikos Mylonas
Layout Design
Giannis Stavrinos, Georgios Soupios
Administrative Management
Georgios Bakos
Maria Bitha, Aggeliki Chatzi
Technical Management
Dr. Marianna Savrami
Lights
Giannis Gonios, Giannis Tsonis, Sotiris Tsonis
Communication
Magda Zindrou
Insurance
ÁÏÍ Risk Solutions, Belgium
DAÈS - London Market Insurance Brokers
Meijers Insurance Brokers, Amsterdam
Transport
Crown Fine Art
ÌoveArt
Lenders
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam (APM)
Epigraphic Museum, Athens (ÅÌ)
Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens
Ephorate of Antiquities of Corinth
Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades
Ephorate of Antiquities of East Attica
Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (HNM)
LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn (LVR- LMB)
Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessalonike (MBP)
National Archaeological Museum, Athens (NAM)
National Library of Greece, Athens (NLG)
Quaternio Verlag Luzern Editions, Lucerne
Royal Museums of Art &History, Brussels (KMKG )
Digital Material
Danish Institue at Athens
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris
Biblioteca National de España
Bodleian Library
Special Collections, University of Amsterdam
The National Library of Russia
Tresoar, Frysk Histoarysk en Letterkundich Sintrum, Leeuwarden
University Library of Leiden
Funding
Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
