"Corfu Remembers" - Special event including Empress Elisabeth exhibition at Museum of Asian Art
Albert Cohen
05 Jul 2019
/ 07:03
CORFU. Albert Cohen Society is organising a special event "Corfu Remembers" dedicated to Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
The event will focus especially on the years she spent in Corfu.
"Sissy - the Corfu Years" will take place at the Achilleion Palace on Sunday 4 August at 20:30 and at the Museum of Asian Art on Monday 5 August at 20:30.
On 4 August the evening will include a musical and dance programme, theatre and a short film about the life of Sissy which was produced in Corfu in November 2018 by the Austrian company Metafilm to be shown on the Austrian TV channel ORF. This will be followed by cocktails in the Achilleion gardens.
The opening of the Empress Elisabeth exhibition, which will include her personal belongings and other exhibits relating to her life in Corfu, will take place at the Museum of Asian Art on 5 August and is being organised by Despina Zernioti, Director of the Museum, Stamatis Hondroyiannis, Head of the Department of Exhibitions, Communication & Education at the Museum, Olivia Lichtscheidl, curator at the Vienna Sisi Museum and the Corfu Albert Cohen Society.
The opening will be followed by cocktails.
"Sissy - the Corfu Years" will take place at the Achilleion Palace on Sunday 4 August at 20:30 and at the Museum of Asian Art on Monday 5 August at 20:30.
On 4 August the evening will include a musical and dance programme, theatre and a short film about the life of Sissy which was produced in Corfu in November 2018 by the Austrian company Metafilm to be shown on the Austrian TV channel ORF. This will be followed by cocktails in the Achilleion gardens.
The opening of the Empress Elisabeth exhibition, which will include her personal belongings and other exhibits relating to her life in Corfu, will take place at the Museum of Asian Art on 5 August and is being organised by Despina Zernioti, Director of the Museum, Stamatis Hondroyiannis, Head of the Department of Exhibitions, Communication & Education at the Museum, Olivia Lichtscheidl, curator at the Vienna Sisi Museum and the Corfu Albert Cohen Society.
The opening will be followed by cocktails.
