{"id":5485,"date":"2020-05-05T09:58:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T06:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2020\/04\/30\/you-can-take-a-virtual-tour-of-the-museum-of-cycladic-art\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:18:09","slug":"athens-museum-cycladic-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greekislandyachtholiday.com\/athens-museum-cycladic-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual tour at the Athens Museum of Cycladic Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

The originals are out of reach for now, but you can still see world-class art without the queues or ticket prices, with an online tour at the Athens Museum of Cycladic Art.<\/p>\n

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The Athens museum is offering an online tour of its landmark exhibition \u201cCycladic Society: 5,000 Years Ago,\u201d which was first hosted by the museum in 2016, under the supervision of its director, Professor Nikolaos Stampolidis.<\/p>\n

Presented as part of efforts to mark the museum\u2019s 30th anniversary, the online exhibition explores the structure of Cycladic society during the early Bronze Age (3200 to 2000 BC), the natural environment, the occupations of the islands\u2019 inhabitants, their social or religious customs and their beliefs, through selected items of the early Cycladic culture.<\/p>\n

Internet users (visitors) are given a glimpse of the Cycladic islands as they were 5,000 years ago through texts, photographs, videos, maps, timelines and excerpts from the exhibition catalogue.<\/p>\n

Check out the virtual tour of \u201cCycladic Society: 5,000 Years Ago\u201d here.<\/a><\/p>\n