{"id":3485,"date":"2026-01-29T15:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/february-2026-opening-dates-and-hours-for-the-permanent-exhibition-george-seferis-the-man-the-poet-the-diplomat\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:50:39","slug":"february-2026-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\/february-2026-opening-dates-and-hours-for-the-permanent-exhibition-george-seferis-the-man-the-poet-the-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2026  opening dates and hours for the permanent exhibition \"George Seferis: The Man, the Poet, the Diplomat\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>February 2026\u00a0 opening dates and hours for the permanent exhibition \"George Seferis: The Man, the Poet, the Diplomat\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>On Wednesday, February 18, 2026, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., and on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 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 Residence (51 Upper Brook Street, London, W1K 2BT).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visitors can obtain their free tickets by clicking the following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/permanent-exhibition-george-seferis-the-man-the-poet-the-diplomat-tickets-1981857373755?aff=oddtdtcreator\" target=\"_blank\">link <\/a>and will need to produce an ID document at the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>New dates and opening hours for the exhibition are published ahead of time on the Embassy's website and social media (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GreeceInUK\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreeceinUK\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greece_in_uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/greek-embassy-in-london-00049b25\/\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Launched<br \/>\n on October 24, 2023, on the 60th anniversary of the announcement of the<br \/>\n Nobel Prize Award to George Seferis, the exhibition is articulated<br \/>\naround three sections representing qualities - two particular and one<br \/>\nuniversal - which the leading Greek author loyally served throughout his<br \/>\n life. Those of the poet, the diplomat and the man (human being).<\/p>\n<p>At<br \/>\n the historic \"Seferis Study\", where the Greek Nobel laureate and<br \/>\ndiplomat lived and worked during his tenure as Ambassador of Greece to<br \/>\nthe United Kingdom (1957-1962), visitors will have the opportunity to<br \/>\ndiscover through a series of objects (photographs, personal items,<br \/>\ndrawings, official and personal correspondence, newspaper clippings,<br \/>\nGreek and foreign editions of Seferis' works, etc.) aspects of George<br \/>\nSeferis\u2019 work, life and personality, as well as to learn more about his<br \/>\ndeep and lasting relationship with the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The idea<br \/>\nfor the exhibition came from an initiative of the former President of<br \/>\nthe Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, who made possible that<br \/>\n32 objects and works related to George Seferis were donated to the<br \/>\nEmbassy from the Anna Londou and Nikos Paisios' collection. These 32<br \/>\nobjects formed the initial core of the exhibition, which was<br \/>\nsubsequently enriched with more works.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition was made<br \/>\npossible thanks to the contributions of a series of individuals and<br \/>\ninstitutions that provided material, objects and artworks from their<br \/>\ncollections and archives, including the Service of Diplomatic and<br \/>\nHistorical Archives (YDIA) of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs,<br \/>\nthe Gennadius Library, the George Seferis Photographic Archive \/<br \/>\nNational Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, the Louth Museum, and the<br \/>\nartist Leda Kontogiannopoulou.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2026\u00a0 opening dates and hours for the permanent exhibition \"George Seferis: The Man, the Poet, the Diplomat\"\u00a0 On Wednesday, February 18, 2026, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., and on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., the permanent exhibition of the Embassy of Greece in London, \"George Seferis: The Man, [&hellip;]<\/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-3485","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\/3485","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=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}