Greece – Georgia: Cultural partnerships planned between the two countries

The Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni and her Georgian counterpart Tinatin Rukhadze agreed connected organizing a bid of associated initiatives crossed assorted taste sectors during their gathering astatine the Acropolis Museum. Mendoni emphasized that “cultural relations betwixt Greece and Georgia person heavy humanities roots and important prospects for the future.”

Among the planned initiatives is the strengthening of practice betwixt the Byzantine and Christian Museum, the Museum of Byzantine Culture, and the European Centre for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments, with the Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Tbilisi State University. Plans besides see a associated accumulation successful Athens featuring Byzantine manuscripts from the monasteries of Mount Athos and Georgia’s National Centre of Manuscripts.

The 2 ministers besides discussed expanding archaeological practice betwixt the nationalist archaeological museums of some countries, arsenic good arsenic supporting excavations related to their shared humanities past done ministries and universities. Special notation was made of the excavations led by Vakhtang Litcheli to find the past Greek colony of Phasis, successful present-day Poti connected the Black Sea.

In the tract of modern culture, Mendoni highlighted the value of reciprocal translations of literate works, making usage of the GreekLit programme of the Hellenic Foundation for Books and Culture to beforehand Greek lit abroad.

For her part, Rukhadze projected strengthening collaboration successful music, theatre, and cinema.

The 2 ministers besides agreed to heighten practice wrong UNESCO and the Council of Europe, peculiarly successful Cultural Routes, successful which some countries already enactment jointly successful 5 routes. Within the model of the Iter Vitis vino route, they discussed imaginable collaboration betwixt the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the Georgian National Museum. Mendoni noted that an invitation volition soon beryllium sent to the museum’s Director General, the distinguished archaeologist David Lordkipanidze, to sojourn Greece.

Finally, the Georgian Minister of Culture invited Mendoni to wage an authoritative sojourn to Georgia successful the adjacent future, with the purpose of signing a bilateral memorandum of practice successful the tract of culture, covering each the aforementioned areas.