On 26/11/2021, our school visited the National History Museum in Athens. More specifically, the museum is located in Syntagma and it is housed in the building of the old Parliament. It was transfered there from the building of the National Technical University of Athens, after a quote from Eleftherios Venizelos, the Prime Minister of Greece at the time. It was founded in 1882 by the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece.
The museum’s exhibits begin with the fall of Constantinople and reach up to the World War II. It also highlights the developments of Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire to the present days on a political, social and spiritual level. The purpose of the Society was the collection, preservation and promotion of relics and testimonies that reveal aspects and facts from the history of modern Hellenism. To achieve this, the founders quickly set up a museum, archive and library. most of the exhibits concern the Greek Revolution of 1821.
Portraits of the Fighters of 1821 are hosted, various exhibits that cover all aspects and periods of the Revolution, such as the naval struggle, Hellenism, the departure of Messolonghi, etc. Many personal items, weapons and military equipment of Revolutionary fighters are on display.Also on display are personal belongings of celebrities such as Ioannis Kapodistrias and the first kings of Greece, Othonas and Amalia, as well as the original of the Constitution of 1843 and heirlooms, flags from the revolutions in Epirus and Thessaly and Crete. of the AD and several prime ministers of the same era.The permanent exhibition also has flags from Greek and Turkish divisions from the Balkan Wars and the Asia Minor Campaign, as well as oil paintings from the Greek-Italian war of 1940 – 1941 that complete the war part of the exhibition. The same room also houses the hierarchical miter of Chrysostom of Smyrna and the tuberculosis with which Eleftherios Venizelos signed the Treaty of Sevres in 1920.
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