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From Hera to Eternity
At the National Hellenic Museum, education and fun are elementary. By Erin Osmon TimeOutChicago A splash of Greek chic arrived on Chicago’s museum scene in December – in the form of the new three story home of the National Hellenic Museum. Housed in a 40,000-foot LEED-certified building designed by local architect Demetrios Stavrianos, the grand [...]
Inaugural Ball – “Greek, C’est Chic!”
THE PARTY More than 800 of Chicago’s civic leaders and prominent members of the Greek community celebrated the opening of the country’s first National Hellenic Museum with a black-tie gala in the tents of Millennium Park, with décor by Event Creative. THE HIGHLIGHTS His Eminence Metropolitan Iakovos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago welcomed [...]
Hellenic Voices interview with Stephanie Vlahakis and Toula Georgakopoulos
An interview featuring the newly-opened National Hellenic Museum in Chicago, featuring the president of the museum, Stephanie Vlahakis, and the director of external relations of the museum, Toula Georgakopoulos. Aired January 26, 2012. Click here for podcast Source: Austin Hellenic Radio
National Hellenic Museum’s journey home
By Steve Johnson Chicago Tribune The National Hellenic Museum’s journey to its new, modernist building on a prominent Greektown corner was long and difficult. There were many obstacles on the way. The trip was, you might say, an odyssey. To get to the corner of Halsted and Van Buren streets, the institution didn’t have to [...]
Pick of the week: ‘Gods, Myths and Mortals’
Copyright © 2012, Chicago Tribune The interactive, family-friendly exhibit “Gods, Myths and Mortals,” in the newly opened National Hellenic Museum, takes visitors through the history of ancient Greece. The exhibit includes a 13-foot Trojan Horse; the Antikythera Mechanism, the oldest known computer; and a game of 20 questions with Aristotle. Through Sept. 21 at the [...]
‘We’re all Greek!’
By Helen Iatrou Athen News WHAT does ancient storyteller Homer have in common with the tens of millions of people telling their day-to-day stories on Facebook? Who invented the Antikythira mechanism, believed to be the world’s oldest computer, thousands of years before the iPad? These are some of the questions being dangled before visitors to [...]
The morning show’s Ana Belaval visits the Museum!
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National Hellenic Museum Featured on WTTW “Chicago Tonight”
By Yasmin Rammohan December 14, 2011 We take a look at the new National Hellenic Museum in Greektown, which features a full-sized Trojan Horse, and a look at the role immigrants played in building Chicago on Arts Across Illinois, on Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm. The new National Hellenic Museum is the only major museum [...]
It’s All Greek to Us: Greek Culture Finally Gets Its Due
By Stephanie Vlahakis President, National Hellenic Museum January 3, 2012 Greece is in the world spotlight now… but for all the wrong reasons. With the current Greek fiscal crisis seemingly plastered to the headlines, Greeks are quickly becoming a punchline. But Greek culture has a depth beyond the news cycle. In fact, Greeks are one [...]
Museums Spice Up Neighborhoods, Share Impact of Foreign Cultures
By Kara Spak Chicago Sun-Times December 29, 2011 When the National Hellenic Museum opened its new 40,000-square-foot space in December, it brought the local ethnic museum into the spotlight. A throwback to the days when immigrants from a particular country staked their claims in growing Chicago neighborhoods, the city is still home to dozens of [...]
Best Chicago museum exhibits of 2011
By Steve Johnson Chicago Tribune December 29, 2011 The year’s biggest news in Chicago museum exhibits (non-visual-arts category) was by the lakefront, where the Adler Planetarium unveiled the long-planned high-tech makeover of its central domed theater, turning the old semi-sphere into a kind of ultimate man cave — and also, we’ll grant you, a pretty [...]
Top five Chicago museum exhibits of 2011
Last call! These kid-friendly faves at Chicago institutions are still showing—but some of them close early into 2012. By Web Behrens TimeOut Chicago We’re lucky to live in a culture-rich region with an abundance of fine institutions. That said, it becomes a challenge each December, when everyone’s trying to brainstorm a list of the so-called [...]
Sneak peek “In Search of Home”
An unfinished exhibit slowly reveals itself. By Web Behrens Time Out Chicago December 29, 2011-January 11, 2012 edition After years of planning, the National Hellenic Museum which claims to be the first and only U.S. Institution devoted to Greek history, heritage and culture formally unveiled its grand new home in Greektown in early December. Curators [...]
National Hellenic Museum teaches lessons of the past, present
By Kerry Lester Daily Herald In its quest to see thousands more patrons come through its doors, the National Hellenic Museum has taken an odyssey of its own. Last weekend, the National Hellenic Museum officially opened its new 40,000-square-foot facility in the heart of Chicago’s Greektown on Halsted and Van Buren streets. That’s four times [...]
1st U.S. museum dedicated to Greek culture opens
By CARYN ROUSSEAU Associated Press CHICAGO — Dolls a Greek woman made during World War II. Ice cream bowls and wooden spoons from a 1940s Greek candy store. Thousands of record albums filled with Greek music. These items and many other beloved objects and family heirlooms have found their way from around the country to [...]
The Museum debuts with God, Myths and Mortals
BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times Here’s a hint if you are trapped in a cave with a Cyclops, whose booming voice warns you in no uncertain terms, “There is no escape!” Make like Odysseus and get under the sheep. The three sheep and the Cyclops are part of “Gods, Myths and Mortals,” opening [...]
New Museum opens in Chicago
Chicago’s Greek Town has a lot more to offer than just great food, and now it’s something of a Greek cultural capital for the entire country. View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com. Read More Article from the online edition of the NBC Chicago