Callas memorabilia moves
The City of Athens’s Maria Callas Museum is getting a revamp, relocating its permanent exhibition to a new space but remaining within the Technopolis art complex. Currently closed due to the imminent changes, the museum is moving from the complex’s Andreas Embeirikos building to the Angelos Sikelianos building and is scheduled to reopen its doors on November 24. The move will also enable the exhibition to be enriched with new material. Originally inaugurated following the purchase of Callas memorabilia by the City of Athens – with the participation of the Ministry of Culture – at a major sale in Paris in 2000, the museum opened at the Gazi complex in 2002. Among other items, the exhibition includes correspondence with family members, a chinchilla fur coat, a pair of Hermes gloves, a wig from a production of «Medea,» along with other visual material depicting the diva in her public and private life. The Maria Callas Museum’s permanent exhibition can be viewed at the Technopolis art complex (100 Pireos) Mondays to Fridays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free.
