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Alonissos Museum in Patitiri The Alonissos Museum, founded in 2000 by Kostas and Angela Mavrikis, is the largest privately owned museum on any Greek island. In this four-storey building, located at a distance of only 30 meter from the harbour of Patitiri, Kostas and Angela gave place to the cultural inheritance of the island. In addition to historical items from Alonissos, the museum focuses on weapons and objects used in the early days by the pirates of the Aegean Sea. To complete the image of this beautiful stone-built building, every storey is forseen from marble sculptures and paintings of artists who visited or lived on the island respectively still live there. |
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Recent News
Friends of Alonissos' Museum
- Published 26 January 2011
As you probably know Greece is in the midst of a severe economic crisis. This means that, amongst other things, there is absolutely no money available from the government to support cultural and historical institutions, and certainly not for a privately owned museum like the Alonissos (Pirate) Museum. But this is no tragedy; we see it as a challenge to find new ways to raise funds to maintain or even improve the quality of our museum.
One of the ways to generate extra income is the webshop that we recently created; another way is to revitalize the "Friends of Alonissos' Museum Association".
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Almost since the start, the museum has been supported by a small group of "Friends of Alonissos' Museum". There was no admission fee to the museum because the management of the museum used the list of members to convince the authorities of the cultural importance of the museum. Now things have dramatically changed. Enlarging the organization with more international Friends is one of the priorities of the museum. Any individual or a legal entity may become a museum friend. At the same time we have to combine every new membership with an anual membership fee. In this way your membership can play an important role in helping to support and sponsor museum programs and activities. |
- The personal satisfaction of helping to preserve the history and heritage of the Northern Sporades;
- Free admission to exhibitions and all museum events on showing your FOAM-pass;
- Membership entitles you to the visit the museums free of charge on showing your FOAM-pass;
- A 15% discount at the museum's shop on articles over 10 euro on showing your FOAM-pass.
You can apply for membership by mailing us at admin@alonissosmuseum.com or download the Application (PDF file) by clicking here and post it to us. The address of the friends can be found in the FOAM-menu.
Payments can be made via PayPal in the FOAM menu on top or by transferring money into the FOAM-bankaccount.
What are the costs of being a Friend of the Alonissos' Museum?
• Annual membership fee is euro 27.50 per person;
• Annual Partner membership fee is euro 45 per 2 persons;
• Annual Student membership fee is euro 12.50 per person (up to 27 years)
• Annual Senior membership fee is euro 12.50 per person (as from 65 years)
