Events & Program

Find out what's on at the museum’s: from current and upcoming exhibitions, to guided tours, workshops, children's activities and events.

11April Friday
LECTURE

On-line lecture by Ioanna Korfiati: “Space, Land Grabbing, and Crisis – Seen from a Human Geography Perspective.”

Time: Friday, April 11, 2025 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm / Online
With this lecture, Ioanna Korfiati looks into the concept of land grabbing within the framework of human geography—a field that is largely unexplored in Greece. How do geographers perceive space (and thus land)? What is the significance of the production of space in capitalism? After outlining this basic theoretical framework, the researcher focuses on the […]
19March Wednesday
LECTURE

Online Lecture by Dr. Metaxia Tsipopoulou, titled: “Petras, Sitia: The Byzantine Cemetery Above the Minoan Palace”.

Time: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Online
Dr. Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Honorary Directress of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, will talk about the Byzantine cemetery that was discovered above the ruins of the Minoan palace of Petras, on Wednesday 19 March 2025, at 7pm. From 1991 to 1995, alongside the excavation of the Minoan palace of Petras, a Byzantine cemetery that was established […]
09November Wednesday
LINGUISTICS

Online Linguistics Lecture Series, November-December 2022

Time: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 8:00 pm - 8:00 pm / Stegi Vitsentzos Kornaros
1st Lecture: “Languages or Dialects? A difficult decision we do not dare make”. Lecturer: Dr. Marina Tzakosta, Professor of Language Development and Pedagogy of the Preschool Child, Department of Preschool Education, University of Crete. Read more: Stegi Vitsentzos Kornaros invites you to watch the first lecture of the Online Linguistics Lecture Series, titled: “Languages or […]
12December Thursday
ART EXHIBITION,EVENTS

Opening of “Anemoi”, an exhibition hosted by Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS, presenting the theses of the ΜΑ Environmental Architecture students of the Royal College of Art, London.

Time: Thursday, December 12, 2024 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm / 97, V. Kornarou St., Sitia
Having been inspired by the notion of wind, the MA students of Environmental Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London carried out an extensive research within the wider area of Sitia, in collaboration with local communities. Their research, which began in 2022, yielded the building blocks upon which their projects were based. Essentially, […]
21June Saturday
ART EXHIBITION,EXHIBITION

Opening of “Impressions of Heritage” Printmaking Workshop Exhibition.

Time: Saturday, June 21, 2025 8:00 pm - 8:00 pm / Stegi Vitsentzos Kornaros
Nature, life, and the history of Sitian arts, as seen through the eyes of the local printmakers of today: Seven participants in the Printmaking Workshop which was held at the Folk – Historical Museum of Sitia from November to June, and the workshop coordinator, Antonia Dretaki, present their work at Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS (97, V. […]
17June Monday
ART EXHIBITION

Opening of “Paramythia”, a painting exhibition by Dimitra Psichoyiou.

Time: Monday, June 17, 2024 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Ground floor of the Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS (97, V. Kornarou St., Sitia)
Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS invites you to the opening of Dimitra Psichoyiou’s art exhibition, featuring fairy tale illustrations and paintings on assorted materials, which is to be held on the ground floor of Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS (97, Vitsentzou Kornarou St, Sitia), at 7pm. Dimitra Psichoyiou was born in Chalkida. She studied graphic arts and iconography, having […]
13April Sunday
ART EVENT,ART EXHIBITION,EXHIBITION

Opening of Asteris Gekas’ exhibition “‘A Dionysian Liturgy’: 100 Years of Mikis Theodorakis” – Paintings and Installations.

Time: Sunday, April 13, 2025 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Ground floor of Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS (97, V. Kornarou St., Sitia)
“My art project ‘A Dionysian Liturgy’, which I have dedicated to the 100 years anniversary of the birth of Mikis Theodorakis, a world-renowned Greek composer and a favourite of mine, coincides with the publishing of the 2025 Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS calendar, that was also dedicated to him for the same reason. As for my exhibition, […]
26April Friday
EXHIBITION

Opening of Asteris Gekas’ exhibition titled: “Votive offerings to the Future of Before”.

Time: Friday, April 26, 2024 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm / Ground floor of the Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS (97, Vitsentzou Kornarou St.)
On Friday April 26 2024, at 19:30, the opening of Asteris Gekas’ exhibition “Votive Offerings to the Future of Before” will take place on the ground floor of the Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS premises in Sitia (97, Vitsentzou Kornarou St.). The artist was born in Thessaloniki in 1954. He studied mainly in Athens, however as he […]
02August Friday
ART EVENT,ART EXHIBITION,EVENTS,EXHIBITION

Opening of Emma Paganini’s Painting Exhibition, “ABRAX, a fascinating link between Man and Nature”.

Time: Friday, August 2, 2024 8:00 pm - 8:00 pm / 97, V. Kornarou St., Sitia
Works of art painted on wood which the artist collects during her strolls along the beach; pictures painted with her own tints, hand-made from rock, dirt and plant roots, following an age-old tradition that the former Abbot of Toplou Monastery has taught her. The title of her exhibition sums up the deep change that the […]
07June Friday
PHOTO EXHIBITION

Opening of Markos Ayianniotakis’ Photo Exhibition, titled: “Human Stories”.

Time: Friday, June 7, 2024 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Ground floor of the Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS (97, V. Kornarou St., Sitia)
“Human Stories” is a collection that focuses on women and their “battles”. The photographer using a special black and white technique has created images that range between raw reality and allegory, even surrealism, in an attempt to showcase the problems, fears, agonies and difficulties of today’s women. The exhibition will be hosted at the ground […]
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