Swedish Institute at Athens
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Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
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General information, facilities
Established in 1948, the Swedish Institute at Athens was the 7th Foreign Archaeological Institute to be founded in Greece, and the first since World War I. Since then, it has developed an important record of fieldwork (both excavation and survey) in Crete. Together with its DanishDanish Institute at Athens
The Danish Institute at Athens is one of the 17 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece.Founded in 1992, the Danish Institute focuses on archaeological research in Greece, but also operates as a cultural institute, with a programme of exhibitions and concerts...
, Finnish
Finnish Institute at Athens
The Finnish Institute at Athens is one of the 17 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece.It was founded in 1984; its mission is the promotion of all areas of Greek studies...
and Norwegian
Norwegian Institute at Athens
The Norwegian Institute at Athens is one of the 17 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece.The Institute aims to promote research in all areas of Greek Studies by Norwegian scholars. It contributes, with its Danish, Finnish and Swedish counterparts, to the Nordic Library at...
counterparts, the Swedish Institute contributes to the Nordic Library at Athens
Nordic Library at Athens
The Nordic Library at Athens is one of several international archaeological libraries in Athens, Greece.It was established in 1996, as a cooperative venture run by the Danish Institute at Athens, the Finnish Institute at Athens, the Norwegian Institute at Athens and the Swedish Institute at...
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Kavala
The Institute also owns a BauhausBauhaus
', commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term stood for "School of Building".The Bauhaus school was founded by...
mansion at Kavala
Kavala
Kavala , is the second largest city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala peripheral unit. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos...
, available as a residence to Swedish artists, writers and scholars.
Archaeological work
Archaeological Projects conducted by the Swedish Institute include excavations at AphidnaAfidnes
Afidnes is a suburb in Attica, Greece just about 28 km north of Athens. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Oropos, of which it is a municipal unit....
(Attica
Attica
Attica is a historical region of Greece, containing Athens, the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea...
), Asine
Asine
Asine was an ancient Greek city of Argolis, which was the first city mentioned by Homer as part of the kingdom of Diomedes, king of Argos.In 740 BC, the Argives destroyed the city because its citizens had helped the Spartans in their war against Argos...
(Argolid), Ayios Elias (Arcadia
Arcadia
Arcadia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan...
), Berbati (Argolid), Chania
Chania
Chaniá , , also transliterated Chania, Hania, and Xania, older form Chanea and Venetian Canea, Ottoman Turkish خانيه Hanya) is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania peripheral unit...
Kastelli (Crete
Crete
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...
), Dendra
Dendra
Dendra is a prehistoric archaeological site situated outside the village with the same name belonging to the municipality of Midea in the Argolid, Greece....
(Argolid), Kalaureia
Kalaureia
Kalaureia or Calauria is an island close to the coast of Troezen in the Peloponnesus of mainland Greece, part of the modern island-pair Poros.Strabo describes the coastwise journey along the Hermionic Gulf:-Pre-classical asylum:...
(Poros
Poros
Poros is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 58 km south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the strait. Its surface is about and it has 4,117...
), Malthi (Messenia
Messenia
Messenia is a regional unit in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese region, one of 13 regions into which Greece has been divided by the Kallikratis plan, implemented 1 January 2011...
), Midea
Midea
Midea Founded in 1968, Midea is renowned as a sizeable conglomerate that specializes in the manufacturing of household appliances and sets foot in relevant fields of real estates and logistics...
(Argolid), Paradeisos (Western Thrace
Western Thrace
Western Thrace or simply Thrace is a geographic and historical region of Greece, located between the Nestos and Evros rivers in the northeast of the country. Together with the regions of Macedonia and Epirus, it is often referred to informally as northern Greece...
), and surveys
Archaeological field survey
Archaeological field survey is the method by which archaeologists search for archaeological sites and collect information about the location, distribution and organization of past human cultures across a large area...
at Asea
Asea, Greece
Asea is a village in Arcadia, Greece, in the middle of the southern Peloponnese peninsula. Asea is about 20 km from both Tripoli and Megalopoli, and 190 km from Athens. Asea was the seat of the municipality of Valtetsi...
(Arcadia
Arcadia
Arcadia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan...
) and Makrakomi
Makrakomi
Makrakomi is a town and a municipality in the western part of the Phthiotis peripheral unit in Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Spercheiada-Geography:...
(Fthiotis).
List of directors
- Erik Holmberg 1947–1948
- Åke ÅkerströmÅke ÅkerströmÅke Åkerström was a Swedish archaeologist and classical scholar. He is best known for his work on architectural terracottas and Ancient vase painting.-Biography:...
1948–1956 - Arne Furumark 1956–1957
- Paul ÅströmPaul ÅströmPaul Åström was a Swedish archaeologist and classical scholar. He is mostly known for his achievements in the prehistoric archaeology of Cyprus.-Biography:...
1958–1963 - Carl-Gustaf Styrenius 1963–1971
- Åke ÅkerströmÅke ÅkerströmÅke Åkerström was a Swedish archaeologist and classical scholar. He is best known for his work on architectural terracottas and Ancient vase painting.-Biography:...
1971–1972 - Pontus Hellström 1972–1976
- Robin Hägg 1976–1994
- Berit Wells 1994–2003
- Ann-Louise Schallin 2004-2010
- Arto Penttinen 2010-