The Library hosts the museum kit “Traveling with Ioannis Capodistrias” by the Capodistrias Museum. With the main subject being the life and work of the great European politician and first Governor of Greece, Ioannis Capodistrias, the museum kit of the Capodistrias Museum met with the students of the 6th grade of the 1st Primary School of Kalambaka today, March 14, 2024.
The museum kit of the Capodistrias Museum is not just a construction of a museum or archival collection. It is a “magical” historical box, in the drawers of which “unfold” information cards, images of objects or documents, activity cards, and replicas of objects from the Collection of the “Ioannis Capodistrias Museum.”
The students explored the archival material, which includes reproductions of artworks, letters, informational material, activity cards, slides with the map of Greece, as well as replicas of objects such as a two typographic elements, and a replica of a phoenix (coin). Subsequently, they played using an interactive game that brings to life the painting of the assassination of Ioannis Capodistrias, a work by Charalambos Pachis from the collection of the Capodistrias Museum in Corfu.
The digital game “1831: Ioannis Capodistrias” highlights in an experiential and playful way the life and work of the First Governor of Greece. The game is developed in three levels, with the central theme being the allegorical painting of the Corfiot painter Charalambos Pachis titled “The Assassination of Kapodistrias” (1872), from the collection of the Kapodistrias Museum.
