Introductory note
Over the last decades, permanent
exhibitions of collections have opened for the public and different museums
have been created, whose thematic mainly revolves around specific artists
or collections. It is often about initiatives of municipalities, which collaborate
with known Karagkiosopektes or families of Karagkiosopektes on the
disposition of their collections, fact that contributes to the existence of the
personal or familial museums. The places where these collections are held are
also often used for representations of the Shadow Theatre, workshops for the
general public, seminars and other events related to the topic.
The main museums or exhibition areas of
the Greek Shadow Theatre are:
- Museum of Greek Folk Art (Ministry of Culture)
- Spathario Shadow Theatre Museum
(Municipality of Maroussi)
- Museum
- Shadow Theatre Charidimos (Municipality
of Athens)
- Shadow Theatre
Museum - "Tannery". (Municipality of Patras)
- Shadow Theatre
Museum – (Municipality of Nikosia - Leventis
Foundation)
- Permanent
exhibition of the Shadow Theatre in the municipality of Ilion
- Shadow
Theatre of Thanasis and Kostas Spyropoulos. Shadow Theatre Exhibition
- Museum "Shadows" of Giannaros
- Shadow Theatre Museum of Antonaros
In
some occasions, beside the museums and collections, the public had the
opportunity to attend important temporary exhibitions like:
- Greek
Body of the Shadow Theatre (70 years of history of the Greek Body of the Shadow
Theatre, 1995)
- Municipality of Keratsini – Cultural Centre Melina Mercuri
(Exhibition: Roots of the Shadows of the East, 2004)
- Benaki Museum (Exhibition: “In Praise of Shadows” -
2009)
- “About
the... Shadows by Paolo Colombo” (2009)
- Hellenic
American Union (Exhibition: The Triumph of
Shadows, 2012)
- Cyprus
Children’s Museum (Exhibition: Shadow Theatre and Karagkiosis, 2012)
