The Museum of Cycladic Art Winter Exhibition

The Museum of Cycladic Art Winter Exhibition is an annual temporary exhibition held in Athens, Greece, across the museum’s Stathatos Mansion and Neofytou Douka wing. The 2026–27 edition is scheduled to open in mid-December 2026 and run into the spring of 2027; the museum has maintained this window across recent editions but announces the specific programme closer to opening.

The recent winter exhibitions have formed the museum’s “Human Histories” series of archaeological shows, produced in partnership with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. The first edition, on the battle of Chaeronea, opened on 14 December 2023 and assembled 240 antiquities and historical documents from twenty-seven museums and institutions. The second, Kykladitisses, opened on 12 December 2024 with more than 180 works on the women of the Cyclades, curated by Demetrios Athanasoulis of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades with the museum’s academic directors, Panagiotis Iossif and Ioannis Fappas. The Kykladitisses exhibition subsequently travelled to inaugurate the renovated Archaeological Museum of Thera on Santorini.

The Museum of Cycladic Art was founded on 26 January 1986 to house the collection of Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris, comprising third-millennium BC Cycladic marble figures. The Stathatos Mansion, a neoclassical house at the corner of Vasilissis Sofias and Herodotou designed by Ernst Ziller and acquired by the museum in 1991, is used for larger temporary exhibitions.