Exhibition Kykladitisses: Untold stories of women in the Cyclades - First announcement
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBITION
DECEMBER 12, 2024

Isis, Neiko, Parthenika, Aline, Magia Pulchra, Ermione, Alexivola, Artemis, Athena, Theoktiste, Maximilla, Euporia…
These are just some of the Kykladitisses (Cycladic Women) who will be telling their stories in the archaeological exhibition with the title Kykladitisses: Unknown Stories of Women in the Cyclades, organized by the Ministry of Culture, with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades and the Museum of Cycladic Art from December 12, 2024 to May 4, 2025. The exhibition, which will be hosted first at the Stathatos Mansion, will then be presented in its entirety at the renovated Archaeological Museum of Thera, which will officially re-open its doors with this presentation. The curators of the exhibition are Dr Demetrios Athanasoulis, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades, and the Academic Directors of the Museum of Cycladic Art, Dr Panagiotis P. Iossif, Professor at Radboud University in the Netherlands, and Dr Ioannis Fappas, Assistant Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The first pan-Cycladic exhibition ever organized, presents history through the eyes of the women of the Cyclades, from antiquity to the 19th century. It is an exhibition that brings together in Athens 180 unique masterpieces from almost all the islands of the Cyclades: Amorgos, Andros, Delos, Thera, Ios, Kea, Kythnos, Melos, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros, Seriphos, Sikinos, Siphnos, Syros, Tenos and Pholegandros. The exhibits date from early prehistory to the 19th century and the birth of the Greek state. Unique works, most of which have never travelled either outside the Cyclades or outside the Museum of Cycladic Art; some have never before been presented to the public. Alongside the marble Cycladic figurines of the Early Cycladic period from the Museum of Cycladic Art, 135 exhibits from the collections of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades and artefacts from the Canellopoulos Museum, the Epigraphic Museum of Athens, the Ephorate of Paleoanthropology and Speleology and important private collections are on display.