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    The Benaki Museum, established and endowed in 1930 by Antonis Benakis in memory of his father Emmanuel Benakis, is housed in the Benakis family mansion...
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  • Antonis Benakis (Greek: Αντώνης Μπενάκης) (1873–1954) was a Greek art collector and the founder of the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, the son of politician...
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    antiquities, the Acropolis Museum, the Museum of Cycladic Art, the Benaki Museum, and the Byzantine and Christian Museum. Athens was the host city of...
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  • 1937 – 24 April 2018) was a Greek archeologist who was the director of Benaki Museum for 41 years and a member of the Academy of Athens. Graduate in the...
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    Emmanouil Benakis (Greek: Εμμανουήλ Μπενάκης; 1843 in Ermoupoli, Syros – June 20, 1929 in Kifisia) was a Greek merchant and politician, considered a national...
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    internationally. In 2004 an exhibition dedicated to her work was held at the Benaki Museum in Athens Her 2008 exhibition at the Temple of Confucius in Beijing...
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  • Center, New York City (2002) The Maliotis Cultural Center, Boston (2002) Benaki Museum, Athens (2007, 2014 – 2015) Centre Culturel Français de Hanoi, Hanoi...
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    episode was organized for actors, contributors and journalists at the Benaki Museum. The series premiered on Greek television from Mega Channel under the...
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    (2013). In 2013, she also created a fundraising film for the Benaki Museum, the pioneering museum of Greek heritage, narrated by Willem Dafoe. In 2015, her...
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    A limestone head sculpture, 30 centimetres (12 in) tall, is at the Benaki Museum in Athens under inventory number 36361. The head was acquired commercially...
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