Venue
The ITEE 2009 Symposium took place in the
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), located in the grounds of
Thessaloniki's International Trade Fair (TIF).
About the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
At present the MMCA's permanent collection comprises 1,800 works by Greek and foreign artists, it is constantly being augmented by gifts from collectors,
artists, gallery owners, and private individuals and constantly presented in the museum' s new wing.
Apart from the permanent display, the MMCA has mounted over 100 exhibitions of works by Greek and foreign artists: retrospectives of the work of
Tsarouchis, Tsoclis, Kontoglou, Chatzikyriakou-Gika, and Warhol have been held for the first time in Greece; and other exhibitions have been devoted to
the works of Fluxus, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Matta, Hockney, Ernst, Barlach, Beckmann, Varotsos, Zongolopoulos, Mytaras, and many other
artists. The MMCA has published more than fifty bilingual catalogues to accompany solo and group exhibitions.
The MMCA organises educational programmes relating to its temporary exhibitions and permanent display, and also devises programmes for other visual arts
institutions. With the help of museum educationalists, tens of thousands of children have enjoyed learning about art.
It also offers guided tours and, in the framework of EU programmes, collaborates with other museums with a view to devising educational programmes for
adults.
In the library two-and-a-half thousand titles of books and periodicals on subjects relating to painting, sculpture, engraving, architecture, and
photography, all the catalogues published by the MMCA, audio-visual material, and the museum's archive of artists are available to the public.
Source: Hellenic Ministry of Culture © 2007
How to get to MMCA
The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art is located in the
Thessaloniki International Trade Fair (TIF)
grounds, on the fringe of the city's downtown core.
The most convenient way of enetering the grounds of TIF, in order to get to the MMCA, is by using
Gate 2 (the south gate) on Stratou Avenue.
The Thessaloniki International Trade Fair (TIF) is located in the centre of the city, near the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
and is served by buses:
02, 03, 05, 06, 07, 10, 11, 12, 14, 27, 31, 33, 39, 54, 58, 78.
For more information on the available bus routes, you may visit the site of the
Organization of Urban Transportation of Thessaloniki (OASTH).
