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ABOUT

Championing the role of theatre and performance in heritage interpretation

Heterotopia is a non-profit creative research studio based in Athens. We are working to raise the profile of theatre, performance and hybrid creative arts practice across the Greek heritage sector by promoting their value as research, interpretation, and engagement tools for museums, archives, historic environments, and sites of memory.

*Heterotopia: a space of otherness, outside of time, where dual or multiple meanings coexist – Michel Foucault 1967

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What is museum theatre? Find out more

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Theater Poster 2023

Research

Museum theatre is our principal research area.

In addition to being an established form of live interpretation it is also a valuable tool in practice-based archives & heritage research due to its ability to create space for the exploration of behaviours, ideas, and moral values of the past in a way that invites analysis and critical reflection. Find out more about our research interests here:
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Digital Transition

The Digital Transition

© Heterotopia / MIET / Museotek (GR)

Museum Learning

Museum Learning

© Tenement Museum (USA)

Heritage Interpretation

Heritage Interpretation

© BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts (BE)

NEW REPLACE Intangible Cultural Heritage

Intangible Heritage

© Archeon Museum Park (NL)

NEW REPLACE Historical Thinking

Historical Thinking

© Colonial Williamsburg (USA)

Our Work

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Training & Advocacy

Our latest training programmes, talks and events:

09 & 10 November 2024 – The FAEROP Festival of Industrial and Manufacturing Heritage – Xanthi, Greece

Organised by PASTALI AMKE, with support from the Greek Ministry of Culture

11-13 September 2024 Digitalisation in Open-Air Museums and Reconstructions – Hybrid

Organised by EXARC and the Batavialand museum, within the context of the RETOLD project (with funding from the CREATIVE EUROPE programme).

21-22 May 2024 Digital Storytelling Festival – Online

Organised by Europeana: an initiative of the European Union, financed by the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility and European Union Member States.

Our news

Read our news, views and announcements here:

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Renewing History Education to Uphold Democracy – New Publication!

ICOM BestPractice2024 3

New Publication – out now!

ICOMCECA award

Award winner! ‘In the footsteps of Vangelis Soukas’