MUSEUMS

The A. G. Leventis Foundation has supported a great number of museums with ancient Cypriot and Greek exhibits. The Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia is one of them and its building has been donated by the Foundation. The Museum of Mycenaean Colonisation of Cyprus, the Museum of Byzantine Civilisation in Palaiochori and the Archaeological Museum in Dion of Macedonia are some of the museums that have been financed by the Foundation.

Important assistance from the A.G. Leventis Foundation has also been received by the Butrint Museum in Albania.

Furthermore, famous foreign museums have received the Foundation’s aid for the organisation and exhibition of collections belonging to the Cypriot cultural heritage. Thus, there is an A. G. Leventis exhibition room both in the British Museum and in the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge. The Louvre museum, the Metropolitan Museum of art of New York, the National Museum of Denmark, the Odessa museum, the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm, have also been considerably supported for the conservation and promotion of their Cypriot collections.

The A.G. Leventis Foundation has also financially supported other significant Museums of Greece.  The “Benaki Museum”, the National & Kapodistrian Museum of Athens Museum”, the “Laskarina Boumboulina Museum of Spetses”, the “Biotechnical-Industrial and Educational Museum of Lavrion”, the “ Goulandri Museum of Natural History (Gaia Centre)”, the “Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki”, the “Vorre Museum of Contemporary and Folkloric Greek Art”, the “Museum of the Olympic Games of Olympia” and other Museums have received the Foundation’s aid in a variety of programs and projects.

PAINTING COLLECTION

 
The contribution of the A.G. Leventis Foundation in Modern Greek Art is aiming in the conservation, research and development of one of the most famous collection of Greek painters of the 19th-20th century. The biggest part of the A.G. Leventis collection is constituted by the collection of 191 paintings, which was initially purchased from Anastasios Leventis by Evangelos Averof in 1973. The Foundation’s fundamental objective was the purchasing of approximately 40 more paintings by which the collection’s gaps could be filled, reinforcing this way the collection with significant and distinguished works of important artists. The oil-paintings, the water-coloured paintings (aquarelles), the drawings and engravings of the A.G. Leventis Collection reflect the evolution of Greek painting in the mid 19th century-mid 20th century era.

The A.G. Leventis Collection has been exhibited in Athens, Thessaloniki, Nicosia, Corfu and London. Furthermore, paintings of the Collection have been provisionally exhibited to important exhibitions in the National Gallery of Athens, the Benaki Museum, in E. Averof Gallery in Metsovo (Epirus) as well as other Museums and cultural venues. In 1989, the first illustrated catalogue of the A.G. Leventis Collection was published while paintings of it have been re-exhibited in various publications, monographs and have been research material in studies regarding the history of Modern Greek Painting.