{"id":3472,"date":"2025-05-02T18:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/may-2025-opening-dates-and-hours-for-the-permanent-exhibition-george-seferis-the-man-the-poet-the-diplomat\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:46:32","slug":"may-2025-opening-dates-and-hours-for-the-permanent-exhibition-george-seferis-the-man-the-poet-the-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/may-2025-opening-dates-and-hours-for-the-permanent-exhibition-george-seferis-the-man-the-poet-the-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2025 opening dates and hours for the permanent exhibition \"George Seferis: The man, the poet, the diplomat\""},"content":{"rendered":"

May 2025 opening dates and hours for the permanent exhibition \"George Seferis: The man, the poet, the diplomat\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Friday, May 9, 2025, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and on Friday, May 16, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., the permanent exhibition of the Embassy of Greece in London \"George Seferis: The Man, the Poet, the Diplomat\" will open its doors to visitors at the Hellenic (\"Ambassadorial\") Residence in London (51 Upper Brook Street, London, W1K 2BT).<\/p>\n

Visitors can obtain their free tickets by clicking the following link <\/a>and will need to produce an ID document at the entrance. <\/p>\n

New dates and opening hours for the exhibition are published ahead of time on the Embassy's website and social media (Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, LinkedIn<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Launched
\n on October 24, 2023, on the 60th anniversary of the announcement of the
\n Nobel Prize Award to George Seferis, the exhibition is articulated
\naround three sections representing qualities - two particular and one
\nuniversal - which the leading Greek author loyally served throughout his
\n life. Those of the poet, the diplomat and the man (human being).<\/p>\n

At
\n the historic \"Seferis Study\", where the Greek Nobel laureate and
\ndiplomat lived and worked during his tenure as Ambassador of Greece to
\nthe United Kingdom (1957-1962), visitors will have the opportunity to
\ndiscover through a series of objects (photographs, personal items,
\ndrawings, official and personal correspondence, newspaper clippings,
\nGreek and foreign editions of Seferis' works, etc.) aspects of George
\nSeferis\u2019 work, life and personality, as well as to learn more about his
\ndeep and lasting relationship with the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

The idea
\nfor the exhibition came from an initiative of the former President of
\nthe Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, who made possible that
\n32 objects and works related to George Seferis were donated to the
\nEmbassy from the Anna Londou and Nikos Paisios' collection. These 32
\nobjects formed the initial core of the exhibition, which was
\nsubsequently enriched with more works.<\/p>\n

The exhibition was made
\npossible thanks to the contributions of a series of individuals and
\ninstitutions that provided material, objects and artworks from their
\ncollections and archives, including the Service of Diplomatic and
\nHistorical Archives (YDIA) of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
\nthe Gennadius Library, the George Seferis Photographic Archive \/
\nNational Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, the Louth Museum, and the
\nartist Leda Kontogiannopoulou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 2025 opening dates and hours for the permanent exhibition \"George Seferis: The man, the poet, the diplomat\" On Friday, May 9, 2025, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and on Friday, May 16, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., the permanent exhibition of the Embassy of Greece in London \"George Seferis: The Man, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embassy-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}