The National Archive of Monuments Publications, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sport

The National Archive of Monuments Publications, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sport

Giving priority to the dissemination of knowledge, the Directorate of the National Archive of Monuments issues scholarly publications related to the Historical Archive of the Archaeological Service and the National Archive of Monuments. Turning its long-standing expertise and in-depth knowledge of the subject to best advantage, the Directorate has published a large number of treatises, in close collaboration with Greek and foreign publishing houses.

Specifically, publications of the Directorate of the National Archive of Monuments include the following:

• Volumes of the Ongoing Catalogue of Listed Archaeological Sites and Monuments in Greece for each Prefecture (also available in digital form)

• Apostolos Sarris & Martin Doerr (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2002, Athens 2003

 Contents

 

• Digitization of the Collections of Movable Monuments under the Ministry of Culture. Questions and Answers about the Project, Athens 2007 (also digital edition)

• «...ανέφερα εγγράφως...» - Catalogue of the Exhibition of Treasures from the Historical Archive of the Archaeological Service, Athens 2008
 Catalogue

• Metaxia Tsipopoulou (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference “Digital Heritage in the New Knowledge Environment: Shared spaces & open paths to cultural content”, Athens 2008
 Contents

• Proceedings of the Two-Day Meeting on The Digitization of the Collections of Monuments under the Ministry of Culture, Athens 21-22 November 2008 (digital edition)

• Introduction to the “POLEMON” Information System of the National Archive of Monuments, Athens 2008 (digital edition)

• Metaxia Tsipopoulou (ed.), Documentation, Management and Promotion of Digital Cultural Heritage. Proceedings of the Documentation Seminar, 19-20 February 2010, Athens 2011 (digital edition)
 Documentation, Management and Promotion of Digital Cultural Heritage
(45 MB - in Greek)

Virtual Exhibitions

This section contains virtual exhibitions of the monuments that have been digitised. The themes are polysemous, while the criteria for the organization of the material include temporal and spatial aspects, and material as well as symbolic/interpretative features. The virtual exhibitions will be renewed on a regular basis.

The current virtual exhibitions include important exhibits from the large museums of Greece. These monuments were digitized in 2008 in the frame of the project involving the digitization of the national collections of movable monuments. Furthermore, there is also an exhibition of archival material from the Historic Archive of the Archaeological Service.


National Archaeological Museum - Vase Collection
National Archaeological Museum - Sculptures Collection
National Archaeological Museum - Prehistoric Collection
National Archaeological Museum - Metallurgy Collection


Archaelogical Museum of Thessaloniki

Archaeological Museum of Herakleion


Byzantine and Christian Museum


Museum of Byzantine Culture

Epigraphical Museum


Numismatic Museum


Historical Archive of the Archaeological Service  

Digital Repository 

Here you can find useful material in digital form concerning a number of issues related to Digitisation, Documentation, Copyright etc:
Documentation Standards and Good Practice Guides
Sources and Bibliography
Useful Links to other websites with similar content, as well as
Promotional Material created within the frame of the Project