Aspects and relics from the Greek War of Independence bring to “life” before the eyes of its visitors the most historic moments of modern Greece, Aggelos Skordas notes in the following report by greekcitytimes.com:
The National Historical Museum, indissolubly linked to the modern course of the country, was organised by the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece on March 25, 1884, while the first show entitled “Monuments of the Sacred Struggle” was presented at the premises of the National Technical University of Athens.
Long firearms (known as kariofilia), pistols, curved swords (yatagan), cartridges, axes, belts (selachi), as well as various accessories such as molds to cast bullets, pouches for the gunpowder, metal drinking bowls and charms along with hundreds of personal items of the revolutionaries excite the imagination of the visitors “travelling” them to legendary battles.
The walls are decorated with portraits of the most eminent fighters of the national struggle. Among them the portraits of Athanasios Diakos, Georgios Karaiskakis and Theodoros Kolokotronis give the visitors a sense of awe, as if their frozen gazes on the canvas constantly observes the course of present day Greece. Every step in the corridors and the exhibition rooms of the Museum (within the Old Parliament in central Athens) marks a step in the modern history of Hellenism. From the very last moments of the Byzantine Empire, the rise of the enslaved Greeks 400 years later, to the establishment of the modern Greek state, the Museum uniquely narrates the most significant events.
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