Previous
Next
Educational program “Bees” in the garden of Mohammed Ali’s Museum
The educational game “Bees” is addressed to school groups and students of all ages, and it is taking place every spring and autumn in the Mohammed Ali Pasha Museum’s garden. With a guidance of a map, the children follow the bee’s route through the garden to its hive. They play and discuss, acquiring knowledge about bees and nature, as well as the adoption of a sustainable environmental attitude.
Explore the history and the events of MOHA Research Center
Educational visits at Mohammed Ali’s Museum
The House of Mohammed Ali Pasha is a place of learning and creation for children and school groups. Throughout the school year, students and teachers visit the museum, take guided tours and participate in various educational activities. The experience at the museum is enriched with play, learning and creative expression. Education goes beyond the boundaries of the classroom and explores the city’s monuments that still preserve something of its past.
“Avato” Photographic exhibition at the Mohammed Ali’s Museum
The exhibition by the artists Latent Community (Sotiris Tsiganos and Ionian Bisai), centers on Black inhabitants of Avato village’s reflections on their identity and their history, which is often traced to the slave trade of the Ottoman Empire. Avato explores the often-overlooked history of Black presence in Greece and uses the history of a single village to consider how to discuss identity when established terms carry complicated pasts and new terms are equally fraught. It also grapples with the question of how art can engage with subjects’ ambivalence about being the focus of outsiders’ artistic interests.
The sacred alphabet: icon, calligraphy, and the visible path to God, article by Evangelos Areteos
In an age often marked by religious misunderstanding and superficial comparisons, Orthodox iconography and Islamic calligraphy offer a rare opportunity for a deeper conversation. They represent two of the most sophisticated spiritual languages ever developed around the Mediterranean, yet they are seldom studied together. While one is centered on the sanctified image and the other on the sanctified word, both emerge from centuries of prayer, contemplation, discipline and theological reflection. Bringing iconographers, calligraphers, theologians, historians and spiritual practitioners into dialogue does not mean erasing the profound differences between Christianity and Islam. On the contrary, it means understanding those differences more deeply while discovering unexpected common ground.