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Edited by: Panagiotis Korakas

DONATION IN MEMORY OF JOHN AND ERIETTA
LATSIS FOR THE UPGRADE OF THE NATIONAL
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
As announced on 17 April by the Ministry of Culture, a dona-
tion contract was signed between the Ministry of Culture and
the National Archaeological Museum as beneficiaries and
Dr Spyros J. Latsis and Dorothy Latsis as benefactors. With
this agreement, the donors committed to finance, exclusively
at their own expense with up to €40 million, all the neces-
sary studies concerning the upgrading and expansion of the
National Archaeological Museum building. The studies will be
carried out by the renowned and award-winning “David Chip-
perfield Architects” and “Tombazis and Associates Architects
S.A” architectural offices. The donation by Spyros and Dorothy
Latsis is made in memory of John and Erietta Latsis.
The upgrade and extension of the National Archaeological
Museum building was the subject of an architectural design
competition that took place from November 2021 to December
2022. Ten proposals were submitted by Greek and foreign
architectural firms’ partnerships. They were evaluated by a
seven-member International Multidisciplinary Committee,
which unanimously selected the proposal of the above archi-
tectural offices who presented their proposal at an event at
the National Archaeological Museum on 15 February 2023 in
the presence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
According to the donation agreement, the studies will meet
the specifications set by the Ministry of Culture regarding the
preparation of the architectural draft, the legislation require-
ments governing public sector studies, and the rules of good
scientific, artistic, and international practices. The studies
will be approved by the relevant competent services and the

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