Mount Athos Center

The Mount Athos Center (agioritikiestia.gr) is hosting an exhibition of photographs from an expedition to the monastic communities of Mount Athos and Meteora in 1929 and discovered in a barrel in a library at Princeton University in 2017.

These days the discovery of film footage shot in Greece in 1929 is greeted with the same excitement as that for an ancient archaeological find. Especially when the moving image is accompanied by a rich archive of rarely seen shots of the country taken by award-winning American photographer and cinematographer Floyd Crosby (1899-1985).

The Mount Athos Center presents an exhibition on the significant botanical treasures to be found on Mount Athos as a result of the peninsula's geographical position and relative isolation. The flora of Mount Athos consists of 1,453 species and subspecies, which account for approximately a quarter of all Greek flora, and of these, 34 are rare native species.

The Aristotle University Library and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography present "Constantinople as Seen by Jean Pascal Sebah & Polycarpe Joaillier (1890-1900)" at the Mount Athos Center through June 10.