The Museum of Anthropology, University of Athens is an educational
museum in
Athens,
Greece. It was founded at the
University of Athens in 1886.
The museum was initially established as part of the university's medical school, in its department of
histology.
The museum's founder, Klon Stephanos, has been described as the "father of physical anthropology" in Greece, Under Stephanos, the museum emphasized its function as research laboratory, rather than as a venue for public displays. It received many early contributions from the medical faculty in the area of
anatomical pathology, as well as becoming an important repository within Greece for historical anthropological specimens that had in the past been sent to foreign institutions.
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Stephanos died in 1915, and Ioannis Koumaris became the second director of the museum, a position he held until 1950.
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References
Sevasti Trubeta, »Griechisch-deutsche rassenanthropologische Begegnungen (1886–1950)«, in: Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis und Miltos Pechlivanos (Hg.), Compendium der deutsch-griechischen Verflechtungen, 20.10.2020, URI: https://comdeg.eu/compendium/essay/99306/.
External links
Official site
Anthropology museums
Athens
Museums in Athens
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
1886 establishments in Greece
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