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All you need is Love! 4 days of celebration!
22 May 2024

All you need is Love! 4 days of celebration!

With 450 visitors, we celebrated for 4 consecutive days, inside and outside the Museum, on the occasion of International Museum Day and World Telecommunications Day!

What could be more authentic than the words of our visitors:

"The renovated Museum space is beautiful"

“I wish it would never end! We love the OTE Museum!”

“Keep up your wonderful work! Very friendly staff! Very warm environment! Thank you very much for the beautiful experience!”

“The team was great, the scenario of the theatre performance was very clever, and the music was super! It was really nice to see the woman who was a telephone operator in the 1970s! Thank you, OTE Museum!!!”

“The performance was amazing!!!The actors were excellent! Mrs. Vlachouta was very kind and sweet, and she moved us!!! OTE Museum, our beloved institution of knowledge and development, keep going, and we’ll be your faithful followers!”

“Well done for all the actions and innovative programmes! Keep it up!"

Get a taste of what happened in and outside the Museum:

We started our actions outside the Museum and visited the SOS Children’s Villages and the Love Center of Elefsina on 16 & 17 May. 70 children participated in the "Tsaka Tsaka" group game of knowledge and observation, inspired by and based on the research work of the Museum’s scientific team on the ways people communicated in antiquity.

On the weekend of 18 & 19 May, more than 350 visitors participated in the Museum’s free educational activities for all ages!

Through the theatrical performance “For more laughter, stay on the line,” from the Chiliodentri group, we travelled to the equator in the 1970s, where a comet passed by the earth. That day, a girl was waiting for a phone call from her father who was in the Indian Ocean, and a telephone operator was working at the call centre... Suddenly the telephone network crashed and a mail pigeon took action to restore the lines ... The show took its inspiration from the book written by a 1970s OTE telephone operator, Zoe Vlachouta, who was there with us, talked to the audience, and signed her books, writing personal dedications for each child.

The OTE Group Athens Chorus sang the Beatles song “All You Need Is Love,” improvising with the children in the renovated exhibition spaces on the 2nd floor.

With a real juggler, young and old alike took a magical musical journey through the art of juggling and telecommunications, through acrobatics on a unicycle and magic tricks with glowing balls and clubs! And that’s not all! In the new classroom on the 2nd floor – in the STEM robotics and engineering workshops – young scientists built robot runners and moving windmills.

And the celebration continued with storytelling workshops, where the children became messengers, wrote a telegram on a current issue that concerns them, and sent it to the goddess Aphrodite, crossing great distances with a map and their imaginations.

Visit the Gallery and get a visual sense of our wonderful actions celebrating International Museum Day and World Telecommunications Day!

Stay tuned for everything that’s coming at the Museum!


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