The Ministry of Culture has announced that the Central Council of Newer Monuments of the Ministry of Culture has approved the final study for the restoration of a designated monument.
The restoration project, which is financed with €1,300,000 by the Ministry of Culture, aims to meet the functional needs of the building, remove later elements that alter the building functionally and morphologically, and restore the original form of the building with repair and restoration of the original morphological and structural components.
The restoration will also ensure the building's energy upgrade, structural system, adequate fire protection, safety, and security of employees and visitors. The restored building will house the Archive and the Theater Library of the Theater Museum, which is designated as a monument as a whole.
The collection, owned by the Ministry of Culture, is the richest collection of theatrical material in Greece and includes the Theater Library with thousands of volumes of studies and plays, and the most complete collection of press clippings.
It consists of publications related to Greek and foreign theatre from 1736 and a rich collection of manuscripts from 1860 onwards. The collection also includes theatrical publications and anecdotal plays or manuscripts, Greek and foreign theatrical publications and studies, archives of press clippings, theatrical and artistic magazines, albums, various publications of general artistic interest, etc.
Moreover, there are digitized collections of all 19th and early 20th-century primary material and more recent audiovisual records. The digital database includes 26,915 items and 1,000 hours of audiovisual material. However, the Theatrical Library remains stored on L. Mesogeion on the premises of ERT without being accessible.
