Exhibitions
One of the main objectives of the General State Archives (GSA) is the organization of scientific and other cultural activities, aiming at the promotion of the work of the GSA and the highlighting of the role of archives as part of the country’s historical and cultural identity.
Both the Central Service and the Regional Services organize numerous events accompanied by exhibitions of archival material and lectures.
The GSA also organize conferences, one-day workshops and other scientific activities, some of which have a local character.
See below the current exhibitions of the Central Service:
One of the main purposes of the General Archives of the State (GAS) is the Organizing scientific and others cultural activities, aiming at projection of the work of the GAS and the Highlighting the role of archives as part of the historical and cultural identity of the country.
In both the Central and the Regional Services, a number of events are organized to be accompanied by Archival material reports and speeches. Also, the GAKs organize sessions, workshops and other scientific actions some of which have local character.
See below Current Central Service Reports:
The reason for the creation of the exhibition was the completion of 190 years since the transfer of the capital of the Greek state from Nafplion to Athens. Through the rich archival material (maps, lithographs, scribbles, albums, documents, etc.), which is structured in eight sections, the new city of Athens is presented in terms of urban planning and its urban planning.
Read more at Press release
Exposure Information:
– Space: General State Archives, Central Service
Dafnis 61, 15452, Psycho
– Exhibition duration: 11 April 2024 to 20 December 2024.
– The exhibition is open to the public from Monday to Friday (10.00 – 14.00), except for public holidays.
For information, organized guided tours and school visits: Department of Promotion, Communication and Educational Actions: 2106782270, publicrelations@gak.gr
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report ‘s section 74. From Dictatorship to Democracy”
The general records of the state, National Library of Greece and the ERT They opened the exhibition “Section 74. From the dictatorship to the Republic”, in the premises of the National Library of Greece.
The exhibition presents unique archival documents and rich audio-visual material, concerning the dictatorship and the anti-dictatorship struggle, the first year of the post-colonialism with the great institutional changes, while through the post-colonial publications the intersection of the 1974 in the social body and in the space of ideas.
Exposure Information:
– Space: National Library of Greece (EBE) – Cultural Center Foundation St. Niarchos (SNFCC)
364 Syngrou Ave., 17674, Kallithea
– Duration exhibition: 17 July – 31st December 2024
– Opening hours: Monday – Sunday, 09:30 – 20:00
– Free entry
Watch the spot of the exhibition Here.
INTERNATIONAL DAILY DAY
A typical example of extroverted action and connection of the GAS with the international archival community, with the ultimate goal of raising public awareness of archive issues, is the Celebrating International Archives Day (Previous name: World Archives Day), at June 9th each year.
learn here More about the International Day of Archives.
The GAS, throughout Greece, every year, organize a series of events, highlighting the usefulness of archives in society and making citizens discover and experience the wealth kept in the archives, which are unique documents of cultural heritage.
Every year, the actions of the Service are notified at International Archives Council (ICA).
See below Central Service Events In the context of celebrating International Archives Day.
The GAS, throughout Greece, every year, organize a series of events, highlighting the usefulness of archives in society and making citizens discover and experience the wealth kept in the archives, which are unique documents of cultural heritage.
Every year, the actions of the Service are notified at International Archives Council (ICA).
See below Central Service Events In the context of celebrating International Archives Day.
International Archives Day 2024
On the occasion of the celebration of the International Archives Day, the GAS opened their doors to the public on Sunday, June 16, 2024. The audience’s acquaintance with the work and actions of the GAK The participants had the opportunity to be guided around the service premises, to come into contact with archival material while the children participated in a specially designed educational program, knowing in a more playful way the value of the archivals evidence.
See here: Poster / Press release
International Archives Day 2023
On the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of Archives and the completion of 100 years since the signing of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange Convention, the General Archives of the State (GAK) prepared a digital exhibition (padlet) entitled “Refugees of 1922: Evidence from the archives and collections of the Central Service of the General Archives of the State’.
The Digital Report included 80 items that made up the following seven thematic sections:
1. The Hellenism of Asia Minor before 1922
2. The Asia Minor Campaign
3. The exchange of populations
4. The care of refugees
5. The rural rehabilitation of refugees
6. The urban rehabilitation of refugees
7. The collective and union organization of refugees
See the report: https://padlet.com/gsapublicrelations/gsa_refugees1922
International Archives Day 2022
The General Archives of the State (GAK), to celebrate the International Day of Archives, made a small tribute to the many, smaller or larger adventures of the rescue of the archives in Greece.
For the needs of the dedication, documents from the archives and collections of the GAK some of the documents mentioned in the efforts to protect the archives of the official authorities, already from the time of the struggle for independence, letters were presented. The anxieties, thoughts and fears of emblematic personalities about their fate but also the decades-long efforts to save the archival wealth of the country. These are just some of the mosaics that make up the laborious effort of some people to get the country’s archives the place they deserve.
Rescue stories do not, of course, stop at the beginning of the 20th century. The goal of the GAK was for this small tribute to be the beginning of a wider one that will reach the recent past.
See the tribute here: https://imeraarxeion2022.blogspot.com/
International Archives Day 2021
On June 9, 2021, the International Archives Day was celebrated, inaugurating the exhibition “Run on the waves of the terrible sea. 1821. The fight at sea”.
The exhibition was co-organized by the Eugenides Foundation and the General Archives of the State (GAS), under the initiative 1821-2021 / Initiative 1821-2021. rare archival documents and Museum heirlooms of the GAK highlighted the historical course and the decisive offer of shipping for independence, as a force of subversion during the period 1821-1827 but also its adventurous routes through emblematic personalities of the struggle at sea.
The archival material was framed by innovative technological applications and 3D models of warships that took part in the Naval Battle of Navarino, which were built as part of the NAVS project coordinated by the Eugenides Foundation and scientific manager of the School of shipbuilding engineers of the National Technical University of Athens. Also, digital and virtual applications were created by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IPTIL) through the REVOLUTION-1821 project.
International File Day 2020
This year, the extremely different conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic did not allow the General Archives of the State (GAS) and no archival body in the world to carry out the planned actions.
Given this impossibility of events, the International Archives Council (ICA), in the context of the International Archives Week #IAW2020, entitled: “Empowering Knowledge Societies” presented a series of webinars that planned to take place Week from 8 to 14 June 2020.
All of us at GAK continue with optimism and maintaining the same appetite for new synergies and actions, to work, with the aim of highlighting the importance of proper management of the archives but also for the promotion of the cultural heritage that we are called to manage!
For now, you can through one summary, to learn about the events that took place, since 2012, in the GAK, as part of the celebration of the International Archives Day.
We hope that in 2021 we will have the opportunity to implement our actions and give the public the opportunity to come into contact with the archives again!
International Archives Day 2019
State General Archives Society for the Study of the History of the Left Youth (E.M.I.A.N.) and Modern History Research Center (K.E.N.I.) of Panteion University They celebrated with Municipality of Filothei-Psychni the International Archives Day 2019, organizing, on Thursday, June 27, 2019, an event with speeches and an exhibition of archival material, entitled: “”60s, a youth in rebellion”
The exhibition, with original and digital archival material of the participating organizations. It remains open to the public until the end of this year.
If you are interested in visiting the exhibition, please contact the Department of Promotion, Communication and Educational Actions of the GAP
See here: Poster / Press release
See the reference to Blog of the European File Portal, for the celebration of International Archives Day in GPS
International Archives Day 2018
The central service of the GAS, the Historical Archive of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Historical Archive of the Municipality of Athens They celebrated with Municipality of Filothei-Psychni on the International Day of Archives, organizing the event entitled “Your medicines bring art…, which do – for a while – not to feel the wound”: Narratives through the Health Archives, on Monday, June 18, 2018, at the Central Service of GAK in Psychiko.
The Central Service of the GAK, the Historical Archive of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Historical Archive of the Municipality of Athens celebrated together with the Municipality of Filothei-Psychiko the International Day of Archives, organizing the event entitled “Your medicines bring art…, which they do – for a while – don’t feel the wound”: Narrations through the Health Archives, on Monday, June 18, 2018, at the Central Service of the GAS in Psychiko.
The event included related speeches and an exhibition of archival material, original and digital, of the participating organizations. The theme focused on the personal, human stories seen through the Archives of Health.
See here: Poster / Press release / Invitation / Account
See here: Summary List events of the P.Y. of the GAP
International Archives Day 2017
The central service of the GIS in cooperation with the General Secretariat for Gender Equality and Municipality of Filothei-Psychni Organized, on Monday, June 19, 2017, an event entitled “Ek women springs up the cretto”, routes in the archival sources.
The event was also attended by Bank of Greece, the ERT and the Society of Greek Directors.
The theme focused on women’s activity through archival sources and included related speeches, an exhibition of archival material, digital and original, by the participating bodies, as well as a screening of the documentary entitled “Periscope – Greek feminist publication” from the archive of ERT.
See here: Poster / Press release / Invitation / Account
