Modern Greek Art Museum of Rhodes - Nestorideion Melathron
Three-storey mansion holding a major twentieth century Greek painting collection, donated to the city by a private couple.
This guide to the Nestoridis Mansion in Rhodes follows the couple behind its name: Ioannis Nestoridis, who died in 1978 without ever seeing the building rise, and his widow Paola, who carried the project forward. You'll hear how she handed the finished mansion to the city in 2002 to house the Museum of Modern Greek Art, a collection first gathered decades earlier by scholar Andreas Ioannou. The guide also traces a second gift she made in her nineties, a new wing built on land across from the old Grande Albergo delle Rose. Listen for what the building's own name is quietly built to remember.
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