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Banknote Museum of the Ionian Bank – Corfu
The Banknote Museum of the Ionian Bank is housed on the first floor of the historic building in which the first Branch of the Ionian Bank in Corfu opened in 1840.
The Museum’s Collection includes the complete series of all the paper money that was circulated throughout the history of the Greek State: banknotes, coin notes and related material, spanning 180 years of history. At the Museum’s permanent exhibition, major events in Greece’s history are presented by means of a timeline and are linked to the numismatic circulation. The visit starts with the bond notes in piastres issued by the Provisional Government of Greece in 1822 and the phoenix banknote issued by Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1831, and ends with the last banknotes issued in drachmas, which were withdrawn in 2002 with the introduction of the euro.
Tours and guided visits to the permanent exhibition are also available.
Banknote Museum of the Ionian Bank – Corfu
Aghiou Spyridonos Square (Iroon Kypriakou Agonos Square)
GR-49100 CORFU
T: (+30) 266 104 1552
F: (+30) 266 102 5950
E: banknotemuseum@alpha.gr
W: www.alphapolitismos.gr
Alpha Bank Cultural Centre – Nafplio
The Alpha Bank Cultural Centre – Nafplio is located in the neoclassical building which belongs to the Bank in the Old City of Nafplio and in which the Bank’s Koletti Branch also operates.
Inaugurated in 2006, the Cultural Centre has since then hosted on its two floors many parallel exhibitions, organised by the Art Collection and the Numismatic Collection of Alpha Bank, on themes drawn from the Bank’s collections of contemporary Greek art and ancient Greek coins, respectively.
The following are some of the most important exhibitions presented in the Alpha Bank Cultural Centre – Nafplio since its opening: “Works by Peloponnesian Artists” and “Ancient Coins of the Peloponnese”, in 2006; “Affinities: Flowers in Greek Art” and “Plants on Ancient Coins”, in 2007; “Yannis Moralis: Theatre-Music-Poetry” and “Journey to the Islands: The Numismatic Evidence”, in 2009, Fred Boissonas, 2010, Greek posters, 2011, Myths, 2013, Theofilos, 2017 until today.
Since 2008, the Alpha Bank Cultural Centre – Nafplio is also organising the educational exhibitions “Printmaking and its Techniques”, “Learning about Coins”, “Myth: Ancient and contemporary Greek art from the Alpha Bank Collections” and “The painter Theophilos” intended for primary and secondary schools. In addition to obtaining relevant information material, schoolchildren visiting these exhibitions also have the opportunity to participate in educational programmes that have been custom-designed by museum education specialists to accompany the exhibitions. Group visits by schools are welcome after prior arrangement.
Alpha Bank Cultural Centre – Nafplio
4, Koletti Street & Emmanouil Dalamagka Street,
GR-211 00 Nafplio
Τ: 275 209 6234, 210 326 2456, 210 326 2457, 210 326 2484
E: exhibitioncenter-nafplio@alpha.gr & artcollection@alpha.gr
W: www.alphapolitismos.gr
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