The idea of the “Greek Museum of Adelaide”
The Greek Museum of Adelaide, is an idea of Chrysoula Melissinaki that she had since 2012, the year she came from Greece, to live in Australia with her family. The absence of a Greek museum in South Australia was something missing from this beautiful city of Adelaide, in which at least 30,000 Greeks live in the state. Chrysoula with her husband, Panagiotis Mavraidis, decided to start the Greek Museum. They made a team of people with the same interest and on 9th of May 2019 they established the “Greek Museum of Adelaide Incorporated”, as a not for profit Incorporated Association No: A43958, in South Australia.
The founding members of the museum are firtst and second generation Greek immigrands who came in Australia from 1950 till 2012. Everybody is welcome to be member or volunteer of the museum, regardless of color or race or religion.
Museum Structure
Executive committee of the board (2023 – 2025): Chrysoula Melissinaki (President) – Kay Anastassiadis (Secretary) – Panagiotis Mavraidis (Treasurer) – George Foumakis – Sofia Georgiou – Mira Zacharia
Working committee (2023 – 2025: Chrysoula Melissinaki (President) – Kay Anastassiadis (Secretary) – Panagiotis Mavraidis (Treasurer) – Andriana Economou – Anna Fragkoudi – Sofia Georgiou – George Foumakis – Mira Zacharia – Athena Karanastasis – Mary Skaltsas
Foundation members: The foundation members are the people who started on 2019 and helped the Museum at its first steps are: Chrysoula Melissinaki – Panagiotis Mavraidis – Victor Eleftheriou – Spiros Sarris – Anna Zounis – Christos Vlachos – Dimitris Katsambis.
The first financial members who helped at the begining of the Museum and for that reason they are foundation members too, are: Eleni Mavraeidi – George Mavraeidis – John Pogas – Angela Grigoras – Nathalia Natsias – Alexandra Pogas – Benjamin Pogas – Jane Pogas – Jonathan Pogas – Natsias Girgolas.
Financial Members: From the begining of the Museum we have 150 members and this year 90 of them are financial settled.
Volunteers: All the committee members are volunteers but there are and other members of the museum who are helping too during the exhibitions.
Exhibits and Financial Donors: The donors are the people who donate exhibits to the museum or helped financial. There are about 100 donors/families who donate to the Museum.
Download the Museum’s Constitution file here: