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OPENING | LAMASSU OF NINEVEH | MICHAEL RAKOWITZ & ANCIENT CULTURES
Acropolis Museum | Outdoor Garden
Curated by Professor Nikolaos Chr. Stampolidis, General Director of the Acropolis Museum and Elina Kountouri, Director, NEON
OPENING DAY PROGRAMME | 6 ΟCTOBER
5:30 pm | Doors Open
6:00 pm | Lecture | Heritage, Genocide and Memory by Dr. Alda Benjamen, Assistant Professor of History, University of Dayton specializing in modern history of the Middle East. Moderated by Rachel Donadio, Journalist & Public Programme Advisor | Acropolis Museum Auditorium “Dimitrios Pantermalis”
7:30 pm | Opening Lamassu of Nineveh at the Acropolis Museum outdoor garden (last admission 9:30 pm)
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NEON and the Acropolis Museum invites you to the opening of the second part of the trilogy Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures featuring Lamassu of Nineveh (2018) on 6 October 2025 at 7:30 pm at the Outdoor Garden of the Museum.
Doors open at 5:30 pm on that day and visitors will be able to also visit the 1st part of the trilogy, the exhibition Allspice | Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures at the Acropolis Museum Temporary Exhibition Gallery attend the lecture Heritage, Genocide and Memory by Dr. Alda Benjamen at 6 pm.
Lamassu of Nineveh (2018) is part of Michael Rakowitz’s ongoing series The Invisible Enemy Should not Exist (2006-ongoing) and was originally commissioned for the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. The Athens installation brings the Lamassu into an immediate dialogue with multiple layers of history and memory: the archaeological excavation visible beneath the Acropolis Museum, the sacred landscape of the Acropolis above, the modern city around it, and the contemporary architectural space of the Museum itself.
Acropolis Museum
Dionysiou Areopagitou 15,
Athens
Acropolis Museum, Dionysiou Areopagitou, Athens, Greece
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