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4 September 2024
- 10 October 2024
“Treasures from Konya and Sille” Photographic exhibition at the Mohammed Ali’s Museum
During the exchange of population between Greece and Turkey, the Christians brought with them icons and utensils from the Byzantine Monasteries, firmans and documents, as well as clothes, carpets, jewelry and objects of daily use. More than 50 objects of unique historical and aesthetic value are photographed for the first time, identified and presented in the exhibition “Treasures from Konya and Sille” at the Mohammed Ali’s Museum.
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“Separation” Exhibition of Cappadocian costumes at the Mohammed Ali’s Museum
A century after the Great Exodus of 1924, the painful separation came to mind again in the exhibition at the Mohammed Ali’s Museum. The collection of the Nazianzos Center for Cappadocian Studies, with original costumes of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, presented the various world of the East. The exhibition led to a journey to the Ottoman Cappadocia just before the exchange of populations.
“Romeyka” A fieldwork-based exhibition on the past & present of Romeyka in Turkey
The exhibition, curated by Prof. Ioanna Sitaridou, strived to inform about the history of Romeyka, a Greek language still spoken in Turkey, and enhanced public awareness around the endangered status of Romeyka in contemporary Turkey and its closest cognate, namely, Pontic Greek in Greece.
Event “Royal Cells: Architecture and Life in the Hive” at the Imaret
Following the transformation of the gardens of Imaret and Mohammed Ali’s Museum into urban shelters for bees, MOHA aims to attract more public gardens, institutions and individuals to adopt creative proposals. Professors from the Polytechnic School of the Democritus University of Thrace presented an innovative natural construction habitat for pollinators bees, while beekeepers and journalists discussed the organization of the hive and the unknown yet wonderful world of the bee.
The Spice Trade Route
One of the oldest trades is the spice trade which played an important political, historical and cultural role over the centuries. It all started with the great explorations in the East. Merchants, sailors, explorers and travellers brought exotic spices to the West via the old caravan routes, from the Far East and Asia to Europe. The distance that separated the old continent from their countries of origin made the spices particularly valuable, so much so that the value of some of them approached that of gold.