Museum of Exile
31, Agion Asomaton str., Athens, Greece | Keramikos
About the company:
The Exile Museum is dedicated to adults and children who, in numbers of more than 100,000 people, were exiled to Ay Stratis Island between 1926 and 1967.
The museum holds important documents - artifacts, records, photographs, magazines and newspapers, works of art dedicated to exiled people. Under the roof of the Exile Museum there are rich collections of paintings, engravings, stone reliefs, sketches and other valuable items. Recently, the collection of important documents has been enriched with information about prisons and concentration camps in Greece, about political refugees.
Annually, the Museum of Exile hosts presentations and lectures that contribute to the knowledge of the history of modern Greece. Exile Museum cooperates with various academic institutions and departments dedicated to the study of civil liberties and rights.