Michelis Foundation - Sponsorships

PANAYOTIS & EFFIE MICHELIS FOUNDATION

SPONSORSHIPS

The Foundation funds projects carried out by scholarly and cultural institutions, such as:

the Greek Society for Folk Museology: to conserve works of art at the Museum of Dionysios Solomos and Eminent Zakynthians, as well as to restore the statue of the national poet Dionysios Solomos on Zakynthos island, to refurbish the old museum building and to display museum exhibits.

the Museum of Greek Folk Art: to restore the Bath-house of the Winds in Plaka, Athens.

the Kanellopoulos Foundation and the Society for the Improvement of Andritsena: to restore a branch of the Andritsena Folk Museum, Peloponnese.

the Greek Society for Folk Museology: to restore the Museum of the Pyrsogianni Stone Masons in Pyrsogianni, Epirus.

the Goethe-Institut Athen: Lectures and forum discussion "Urban planning. Aesthetic improvement of cities. The case of the centre of Athens".

the Hill School, Athens: to organise the "Art in schools" event, lectures and an exhibition of the pupils' works.

the "Archelogos Project - Technosophia Programme", University of Edinburgh, directed by Theodore Scaltsas, professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy: to create a new method of studying and teaching ancient Greek philosophy using computer technology.

the University of Ioannina, Department of Philosophy: to organise the Symposium on Aesthetics: "The Question of Art Today".

the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens: for the publication of the catalogue, The World of the Byzantine Museum, Athens 2004.

Hellenic Children's Museum: educational programme at the Municipal Gallery of Athens.

Museum of Greek Children's Art: publication of the proceedings of the First Conference on "Children's Art - Contemporary Art", Athens 2006.

Museum of Greek Popular Instruments, Anoyanakis Collection - Research Centre for Ethnomusicology: acquisition of a major part of the Philippos Philaitis musical collection.