90 YEARS OF THE MARATHON DAM
THE EXHIBITION
THE GREAT CHALLENGE. 90 YEARS OF THE MARATHON DAM
Virtual tour of the exhibition for the 90 years of the Marathon Dam
Virtual tour of the exhibition for the 90 years of the Marathon Dam
90 years ago, on October 25, 1929, the construction of the artificial lake and the Marathon Dam was inaugurated. On the occasion of the completion of 90 years (1929 - 2019) of the construction of this technically significant project for Greece in the years between the two World Wars, EYDAP organized an anniversary exhibition, presenting for the first time documents from its Historical Archive.
The exhibition "THE GREAT CHALLENGE: 90 YEARS OF THE MARATHON DAM" shed light on the many challenges hidden in this great project, examining not only the historical and technical conditions, but also the economic, political and social ones.
The exhibition explored the context in which the project was built, who worked on it and under what conditions, what survives from its construction 90 years later and how much the construction site influenced the organisation of subsequent engineering works in our country. The above questions corresponded to the following three topics:
Α. A complex project
Β. A model construction site with a large number of workers
C. Preservation in memory
Through their tour, visitors sought answers in the exhibition halls and discovered the difficulties in realizing one of the most important technical projects of the era, which was the starting point for a series of other great projects that changed Greece between the two World Wars and enabled the cultural and social development of the capital.
The Exhibition was curated by the architect and museologist Erato Koutsoudaki.
The exhibition was open from 12.11.2019 - 29.03.2020 at the Cultural Centre "Hellenic Cosmos".
PHOTOS FROM THE EXHIBITION