Athens International Airport and the Museum of the Hellenic Nobel Collection host, for the first time internationally, the exhibition under the title “Alfred Nobel and Greece”. Through rich photographic material, a series of rare exhibits from the famous Swedish inventor’s collection, will be on display at the airport / Arrivals / Entrance 1.
This new exhibition displays unpublished manuscripts belonging to Franz Liszt, Paul Valery, Bertha von Suttner (Winner of Nobel Peace Prize), Selma Lagelof (Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature) - first women to be honoured with a Nobel Prize – Friedrich Nieze, and others.
Visitors can also admire photographs of oiler ship “Socrates”, stocks of the Corinth Isthmus project (from Nobel’s reward for his explosive mechanisms used during the construction), along with a series of items demonstrating Nobel’s evident philhellenism.
AIA’s new exhibition will be inaugurated tomorrow, Thursday, December 7th, and will remain on display until February 10th, 2007, open 24 hours a day. The Museum of the Hellenic Nobel Collection will open its gates in mid 2007, displaying a unique collection comprising 3,500 rare items, never exhibited in the past.
Photos from “Alfred Nobel and Greece” exhibition and the inauguration ceremony at Athens International Airport