In parallel with the main exhibition, the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, in collaboration with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is staging a presentation of objects from Greek Neolithic sites of the same period for comparative reasons. The presentation, which features 90 exhibits from several museums, explores the similarities and the differences between Greece and the Balkans during the 5th and 4th millennium BC. The exhibition will last until 10 January 2011.
The unknown world of “Old Europe” is revealed in this exhibition, which features more than 200 Neolithic objects from Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova. Among the exhibits are impressive models of the human form, stunning painted pottery and metalwork, including the earliest known assemblage of gold artefacts from the cemetery of Varna.
The exhibition, which is being staged by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, in collaboration with the National History Museum of Romania, Bucharest and with the participation of the Varna Regional Museum of History in Bulgaria, and the National Museum of Archaeology and History of Moldova in Chisinau, demonstrates that during the Neolithic period, the various regions of Southeastern Europe had more things in common than differences.
Don’t miss the exhibition “The Lost World of Old Europe” at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece.
