The 2.3-meter-high archaic Kore of Thera which was unearthed on the island of Santorini in 2000 is expected to be exhibited for the first time in the island’s Archaeological museum next year, according to an agreement signed by Alternate Culture Minister Nikos Xydakis and the Santorini mayor Nikos Zorzos on Friday.
During a meeting at the island, the minister said the purpose of the agreement is to promote the excavations and the area of Medieval Kastelia, as well as the exhibition of the statue and the wall paintings found in Akrotiri at the Museum of Prehistoric Thera.
Xydakis also announced he will try to secure EU funds for the refurbishment of the island’s Archaeological museum, for which the ministry already has a study and a town planning permission.
“As an inexhaustible source of self-knowledge, culture is not a tool for tourism, but a main pillar for Greece’s development, particularly in the Aegean,” Xydakis said.
Source: NewsBomb [June 26, 2015]