Archaeological Museum, Crimea, National Preserve ‘Chersonesos of Taurica’, Ukraine
Founded as a Greek colony in the 6th century BC and recently awarded UNESCO World Heritage Site status, Tauric Chersonesos of Crimea is one of the most important and well-known archaeological sites on the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus). A prosperous city during the Byzantine era, it has been systematically excavated since 1827. With the support of the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the National Preserve ‘Chersonesos of Taurica’ is converting a 19th-century building into an Archaeological Museum, which will house statues, reliefs, funerary stelae, architectural members, inscriptions, mosaics and ceramics. Chersonesos linked Russian and Slavic peoples with the ancient Greek and Byzantine civilization and Orthodoxy, and its Archaeological Museum will serve to illustrate the ancient Greek colonisation of the Pontus Euxinus. Specialists from the Foundation are collaborating with the National Preserve on museological matters, lighting and technical issues.
Grants given:
2010, 2012, 2013
