23. BYZANTINE AND CHRISTIAN MUSEUM

23.

BYZANTINE AND CHRISTIAN MUSEUM

Art, History School: DES Primary School Country: Greece

10 years old group of 35 students duration: 2 days

CONTENT OF ACTIVITY

In the content of the history lessons of year 5, students visited the Byzantine and Christianism Museum of Athens. The goal was for the students to observe the exhibits and link them to the historical era they are taught at the school. Byzantine art is tide up with the Christian culture so children had a clear idea of what was the Byzantine art all about.

The students took part to the educational program of the museum.

The Byzantine and Christian Museum, which is based in Athens, is one of Greece’s national museums. Its areas of competency are centred on but not limited to religious artefacts of the Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, post-Byzantine and later periods which it exhibits, but also acquires, receives, preserves, conserves, records, documents, researches, studies, publishes and raises awareness of. The museum has over 25,000 artefacts in its possession. The artefacts date from between the 3rd and 20th century AD, and their provenance encompasses the entire Greek world, as well as regions in which Hellenism flourished. The size and range of the collections and value of the exhibits makes the Museum a veritable treasury of Byzantine and post-Byzantine art and culture.

Byzantine and Christian Museum

website: https://www.byzantinemuseum.gr/