This digital collection presents part of the Benaki Museum collections that comprises many distinct categories totaling more than 40,000 items, illustrating the character of the Greek world through a spectacular historical panorama: from antiquity and the age of Roman domination to the medieval Byzantine period; from the fall of Constantinople (1453) and the centuries of Frankish and Ottoman occupation to the outbreak of the struggle for independence in 1821; and from the formation of the modern state of Greece (1830) down to 1922, the year in which the Asia Minor disaster took place.

The Collection of Wall Paintings at the Byzantine Museum although it is limited in size (approximately 350 works), it is precious in the way in which the collection traces the development of monumental religious painting in Greece during the Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods.

The collection consists of 2 files.The first file consists of: Venizelos' correspondence since the Cretan years.Printed material and newspapers of the Cretan period. Correspondence between Venizelos and Markantonakis on issues of domestic and foreign policy,Correspondence between Venizelos and Markantonakis on personal matters and Venizelos' financial data.The second file comprises: The personal correspondence -of political and social content- of Klearhos Markantonakis, His correspondence with Sophocles Venizelos and with the Liberal Party.

The Special Collection comprises digital reprints of the Institute's old and rare books in Greek and other European languages. Most of the 302 titles are traveller’s accounts or works on the history, civilisation, folk life, religion and literature of the Hellenic and Balkan region. The oldest and rarest book in the collection is a 1604 edition of the 'Histoire de Georges Castriot Surnomé Scanderbeg, Roy d’Albanie', written (in French) by Jacques de Lavardin and printed at Saint-Gervais.

The collection "Programms of Performances" (Programs), is one of the 11 archive collections in digital format that National Opera of Greece owns in its Digital Archive premises. The particular collection is representative of all cultural offer of the Greek National Opera in the past 65 years of continuous artistic creation, in the area of Opera.

The collection contains prints by Greek and foreign artists.

The museum of the Film Archive comprises a small jewel in the history of Greek cinema. The rare exhibits found here include: a collection of the first movie cameras and projectors as well as a complete range of early equipment and objects used in the production and editing of sound and image. There is also an exhibition of “pre-cinema” projection devices, such as: zoetropes, kinetoscopes, praxinoscopes, magic lanterns and others.The Museum traces its beginnings to 1990 and the ground floor of the Deligiorgi Mansion, where the Greek Film Archive is housed. Here was displayed a collection of exhibits - both graphic and mechanical – which contributed to the birth of the motion picture.

The digital Pre-Columbian Art Collection is part of the collection which was donated by Georgios Gontikas and consists of objects belonging to the "Andean Civilisations" of South America. The general term "Andean Civilisations" encompasses the many cultural groups that inhabited the Andean mountain range, and had a common worship and technology. In this extensive territory three zones can be discerned: the North Andes (Colombia, Ecuador and a small part of Peru), the Central Andes (the high plateaux of Peru and Bolivia) and, in the south, the Chilean desert.Because there are very few surviving written sources, the conclusions of archaeological research provide valuable data for forming a picture of life in Pre-Columbian societies and of their exceptional, but still unknown, civilisation. The Pre-Columbian Art Collection illuminates many facets of peoples’ lives in Pre-Columbian America: technology, ceremonies, materials, clothing, rituals, and ideology. This is the only known Greek collection of objects from Central and South America, originating specifically from the civilisations of Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica and Mexico. It includes more than 200 artefacts and an impressive group of 2,355 spindle whorls.Religion was a major factor of Pre-Columbian life; it was animistic, deifying natural forces, sacred sites and objects. Many of these forces were antithetical, although supplementary, since the religion was governed by the concept of dualism. Despite their individual differences, the devotional practices of Central and South America present common features, and demonstrate the reciprocal influence of symbols and religion between these two regions.Certain ceremonies included offerings to supernatural forces, whether "blowing" the spirit by smoking coca leaves on mountain peaks, or offering corn beer libations to the "Earth-Mother", known as "Pachamana" in the "Quechua" dialect, or making burnt offerings. Shamans and priests constituted a special social group associated with the aristocracy. As intermediaries between the real and the spirit world, shamans play a significant role in native societies to this very day.The principal source for identifying characteristic features of Pre-Columbian life, as vividly depicted by the objects in the Gontikas Collection, constitutes the recurring iconographic motifs. One observes that trophy-heads and priests (and/or shamans) dominate Nasca vessels, while elements of local flora and fauna adorn Ecuadorian spindle whorls. The cultural values of daily and ceremonial life were likewise reflected in art. Moche vessels demonstrate a preference for depicting battle scenes, prisoners, animals and plant themes, to which potters would lend human and divine features. Many animals, including the jaguar, puma, eagle and owl, were dominated by human spirits and forces. Deities were portrayed superbly, such as "Lord Sicán" and the "Anthropomorphic Mythical Being" of Nasca art. The collection is supplemented by works of the Colonial Period, such as the double pitcher, on which we recognise a combination of Pre-Columbian techniques with others that were introduced by the colonialists (glazing).

The Minor Arts Collection of the Byzantine and Christian Museum includes approximately 4.000 objects. The collection contains artifacts mostly religious. There are also secular artifacts made of various materials and techniques date from 14th to 19th century.

The Artistic Life Archive covers written items related to the Greek theatre, cinema and music of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection comprises artists’ private archives, photographic material, programmes of events, accompanying records of ephemeral character, as well as self-contained and periodical publications of the corresponding thematic categories. The material in its entirety is a special section of the Archive Collection, the Photographic Archive and E.L.I.A.’s Library.

Digitised cinema programmes from 1920 to 1930. The physical collection of the Greek Film Archive consists of over 4.500 of those programmes that were handed by usherettes to cinema goers. The cinema programmes that were selected for digitisation come from cinemas that no longer exist, while covering the whole spectrum of films and trends of this specific period of time.

The digitised material in this collection includes publications and documents (papers, letters, minutes, stills) of important Greek films, over the period from 1910 to 1990. Publications related to Greek films such as «Δάφνις και Χλόη», «Λαγιαρνί», «Μάγος της Αθήνας», «Μαρία Πενταγιώτισσα», «Φίλησέ με Μαρίτσα» are indicative of this collection.

Introduction to the Mycenean Civilization and its aspects: prestige of power, government control, bureaucracy, trade, religion, worship. Presentation of the Mycenean Hall of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. An educational publication addressed to children from 8 to 10 years old.

The "Anna Komnene" digital collection features archaeological sites, monuments and building complexes from all periods of Byzantine history and from all the major centres of the Byzantine world. In Greece, it covers sites in the regions of Attica, Thessaloniki and Mystra, and elsewhere in regions of Armenia, Algeria, FYROM, Georgia, Jordan, Cyprus, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Tunisia – highlighting the wide sphere of influence of Byzantine culture both in the Mediterranean area and its surrounding regions and in other parts of the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa.The common point of reference linking all these historic sites and buildings is their artistic quality (in terms of architecture and decoration). Most of them are included in the UNESCO world heritage list. The various types and styles of building represent practically every phase in Byzantine architectural history, while their distribution across the whole area of Byzantine influence and their styles of decoration (painting, etc.) offer examples of some of the most sublime moments in Byzantine art.

A collection of digitized photographs from Greek films, which were used mainly for advertising purposes in Greek film theatres.

The collection consists of 2 files. The first file comprisesRecords about the “Liberal Youth of Chania” and its activity.Correspondence of G. Papandreou, leader of the Liberal Party, with the party's leading figures andInteresting photographic material.The second file presents the correspondence of the Popular Liberal Union of Alexanria with the Popular Liberal Union of Vegha.

The collection includes postal cards from the period 1904-1918. They depict places of Macedonia, economic activities of the rural population and portraits of Macedonian Fighters (Makedonomachoi). Most of the postal cards have notes in French.

This digital collection includes information and images from the royal tombs of Mycenae (Grave Circles A and B) and the tomb of Vapheio (16th-15th century B.C).

55 hours of selected audiovisual material from the collections of the Greek Film Archive, which was preserved, restored and then digitized. Multimedia material contains documentary films, news, fiction movies and short films of the Greek cinema production from 1920 up to the 70's.

The collection comprises 402 maps showing the region of SE Europe (Greece, Asia Minor, Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey etc.) during Antiquity, the Roman and Byzantine Empire, Middle Ages, Ottoman Empire and 20th century.

The Museum’s Collection of Paintings includes approximately 110 paintings of religious and secular content, primarily pictures of pilgrimage sites in the Holy Land and a few portraits (18th – 20th century). They were painted on canvas, hardboard or industrial wood, usually in oil or tempera.

The primary figurative imprinting of costumes of important costume designers for the productions of Greek National Opera.

A selection of 100 posters from the collection of the Greek Film Archive was digitised, having first been preserved and restored.Especially after the Second World War, Greek film production increased significantly, with posters created from studios of artists such as Nikos Nikolaidis, Giorgos Vakirtzis, Stefanos Almaliotis, Spyros Vasileiou, Andreakos and others, which, besides their advertising and informative function, they were works of art themselves.

The digital collection contains works of Post-Byzantine art, the school of the Ionian Islands and Greek Modern and Contemporary Art (19th-21st century) and a collection of European Art.

The type of Kouros (male youth) in the archaic Greek sculpture: general stylistic features and representative examples from the Archaic Sculpture Halls of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. An educational publication addressed to 10-year-old children.

The photographic material of the archive emanates from various sources. The main subject of the collection is Greek Vlachs, whereas an important part includes the unknown -until recently- artistic creations of brothers Manakia, the photographers who were the pioneers of the cinema in the Balkans. The collection depicts scenes from the late 19th and the early of the 20th century; included are photographs of typical patters of settlements and Vlah population around 1900. Considering the collection as a total, helps reversing several stereotypical theories as well as understanding the various cultural, social and economic identities of the Vlach populations.

This digital collection includes important artefacts mainly from the Neolithic period (human figurines, vases and amulets), as well as from the Late Helladic Period (a Linear B tablet and an anphora with Linear B inscription).

A new thematic site about Greek music was created within the programme Creation of a complete unit of documentation and promotion of Greek music, funded by the operational programme “Information Society” (3rd European Community Support Framework, 2000–2006); it includes the digitised archives of the composers Mikis Theodorakis, Εmilios Riadis, George Poniridis, Frank Choisy, the Nileas Kamarados Archive, the collections of manuscripts and Greek Songs that belong to the Library and also the Domna Samiou Archive, which belongs to the “Domna Samiou Cultural Society of Folk Music”.This significant thematic documentation of Greek music includes more than 260,000 digitized documents of unique cultural value; they are the source for every researcher interested in Greek music. These documents can be utilized for the interdisciplinary creation of cultural services, always subject to intellectual property law.

Ancient artifacts from Cyprus, covering a large chronological spectrum from the Chalcolithic period to late antiquity.

The digital collection of postcards consists of 10.000 selected digitised images of Greece, the Balkans, Egypt and Turkey.

The photographs depict the period of military conflicts in Macedonia during 1904-1908. Available is also photographic material from the First Balkan War (1912). There are pictures of cultural and musical associations of Macedonia, as well as of social and school activities. The majority of the photographs portrays military guerrilla groups and portraits of Greek Macedonian Fighters (Makedonomachoi).

The collection contains drawings of Greek and foreign artists.

The album includes 423 photographs of the period 1904-1908, which depict cities and communities/towns of Greek Macedonia, the social and economic life in villages of Greek Macedonia, as well as the urban landscape of Thessaloniki.

The primary figurative imprinting of sets of important stage designers for the productions of Greek National Opera.

The daily italian newspaper Messagero di Rodi covering the period of the Italian Occupation of the Dodecanese is preserved in 28 volumes with more than 54000 pages. This archive material is now available in digital form via a web library and the chronological search of digitized pages. The digitised collections of the Archaeological Institute of Aegean Studies also include a large number of 15000 glass plaques of the Italian Photographical Archive, the book series Clara Rhodos and the book “La cite de Rhodes” by A. Gabriel.

The digital collection consists of 250 digitised covers, from the collection of Greek cinema magazines held in the Greek Film Archive. The collection includes some of the most important magazine publications of this kind and covers a period of 6 decades, from 1925 to 1975.

20 files.The files 01, 18, 19 and 20 of the collection contain legal and political documents, as well as correspondence during Eleftherios Venizelos' time in Crete also, his political and personal correspondence (1910-1936).The files 02-17 contain the “History of Thucydides Translated by Eleftherios Venizelos”. This is the largest part of the original manuscript translation of the History of Thucydides by Venizelos, as well as his personal comments on Thucydides' History.

Familiarization with the frescoes and the other archaeological artifacts, that were revealed under the volcanic ash at the excavation site of Akrotiri on Greek island of Thera (Santorini). Presentation of the Thera Hall of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. An educational publication addressed to children from 8 to 10 years old.

The digital collection depicts part of The Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery, donated to the Benaki Museum by the distinguished Greek painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika during his lifetime. Since 1991 it has functioned as an annex of the Museum. The permanent exhibition of his works was selected and arranged by the artist himself, and is housed in the apartment block situated on 3 Kriezotou Street in Athens, where the artist resided for forty years.Works, representing every aspect of Hadjikyriakos-Ghika’s oeuvre, are displayed in this space. The main body of the exhibition comprises oil paintings, the earliest dating to 1930 and the latest to 1990. There are also watercolours, drawings, stage and costume designs, tapestries, manuscripts and the artist’s tools. A complete series of sculptures and reliefs inspired by Greek mythology and dating to the period 1940-1970 are likewise on display.The Gallery also houses the important photographic archive collected by Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika. This comprises a large indexed collection of black-and-white and coloured prints and negatives, which offers a valuable insight into the artist’s life and work.The artist’s library, with its rare illustrated volumes, its carefully chosen ornaments, and its antique furnishings from the artist’s ancestral home on the island of Hydra, gives a good indication of his skill and personality. Likewise, his aesthetic sensibilities are immediately obvious in the arrangement of his home and studio, both of which have been preserved exactly as they were during his lifetime.The Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery is temporarily closed to the public due to conservation and reconstruction works on the building. When these works have been completed, the artist’s residence, studio and the Art Gallery that contains his works will continue to function as permanent exhibition areas; the remaining areas will be made available to promote the modern Greek painting of the 1930s generation and to house a library specialising in art history.

This file consists of 130 records covering the late 19th century to 1930. It comprises landscapes of the cities and the prefectures of Rethymno, Heraklio and Lasithi by important photographers such as Behaeddin, Periklis Diamantopoulos etc.

Forms which contain very interesting figurative depictions and relative informations with the productions they present.

The Loverdos Collection was imported in Byzantine and Christian Mouseum when the heirs of the collector Dionisios Loverdos, a banker from Cephalonia, gave for conservation and safekeeping a large part of the collection (approximately 600 items). The collection contains artworks of post-Byzantine art: icons, manuscripts, woodcarvings, ecclesiastical vestments (15th – 19th century).

The Maria Argyriadi donation is the core of the Department of Childhood, Toys and Games, which was founded in 1991, and this digital collection is only a small part of it.The Department's collections include 20,000 toys, games and childhood items, from antiquity to 1970, originating not only from Greece and the broader Greek world, but from Europe, America, Africa and the East as well.The department’s primary aim is to document all aspects of the themes "childhood", "game" and "toy", by studying the history of toys in Greece and Europe, and children’s daily life in a traditional Greek context as well.The collection’s Greek section comprises infants' and children's toys spanning the classical, Roman, Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods. They include hand-made traditional Greek toys dating from the 18th to the 20th century, articles from country festivals, 20th century commercial products, team sports, board games, and seasonal games.A separate group of objects includes reconstructions of popular toys, from the beginning of the 20th century, made by members of the K.A.P.I. (Centres for the Open Protection of the Aged).The European part of the collection comprises dolls and games of urban and rural manufacture dating from the 17th to the 20th century, mainly from England, France and Germany. There is also a selection of 19th and 20th century European regional costume dolls dressed in costumes from different parts of Greece.A specialist library open to all interested parties includes 3000 books and studies relating to children and toys, archival sources, photographs, information about Greek manufacturers, and works on children's literature and education, as well as general reference works.The collection of children’s Toys and Games, as well as a rich archival material, will be housed in the Kouloura Building.

The catalogue contains over 2657 titles of Greek fiction films, documentaries, news and archived material from 1920 to 2005.Information documented and presented for each title includes a short film synopsis, film credits cross-linked to relevant bibliography as well as additional film details. Each title is also linked to any relevant photographic material from the archive.

E.L.I.A`s Press archive comprises about 10,000 titles of Greek newspapers and periodicals published in Greece or abroad since the beginning of the 19 century, as well as about 1,300 annual calendars.

Photographs imprint historical moments of artistic creation of Greek National Opera’s opera and ballet productions.

By including the support and promotion of Greek musical creation among its goals, ‘The Friends of Music Society' broadened its basic artistic pursuits to encompass research and educational aims. In particular, the Society decided to include in its activities the recording and study of Greek traditional music, and its dissemination by means of modern information networks and products. The research programme on the 'Recording, study and promotion of Greek traditional music' began in 1995, starting with Thrace (Prefectures of Evros, Rodopi, Xanthi).

The digital collection includes the title pages and the contents of publications, manuscripts, and part of the archival material of the library.