Danish Institute at Athens

03/06/2026

Dear friends. If you missed our annual meeting in April, you can now watch it all on our youtube channel. Click below to hear about the activities of the Institute in 2025 and to hear Søren Handberg's lecture on the Danish excavations of ancient Kalydon. The video also captures the electronic musical piece by A & O. Friisgaard at the end of the event.

The Open Annual Meeting of the Danish Institute at Athens was held ...

02/06/2026

On Friday 5 June, WHI ensemble will give a concert at the Danish Institute at Athens. Come celebrate the beginning of summer with us to the sound of this renowned experimental musical ensemble on Friday 5 June at 20.30. Everyone is welcome and no registration is needed. See you on Friday!

The Danish Institute is proud to present the WHI ensemble who are back with more pieces by contemporary composers, including Carl Bergstrøm Nielsen.

05/05/2026

Please join us at The Danish Institute at Athens on Thursday and Friday for our conference on the sanctuary of Athana Lindia (Lindos, Rhodes). The conference brings together an excitingly interdisciplinary group of archaeologists, epigraphers, historians and others to reexamine the history and meaning of the Athana Lindia sanctuary, covering aspects such as ritual, dedications, inscriptions, monuments and much more. The conference is supported by Consul General Gösta Enboms Foundation. Every one is welcome - no registration needed. Read mores on: https://diathens.gr/events/sanctuary-city-and-congregation

30/04/2026

Dear friends. We are both proud and excited to be able to present this new volume of our Miscellanea series: Mediterranean Horizons Archaeological Studies in Honour of Søren Dietz, edited by Pernille Bangsgaard, John Lund, Peter Pentz & Lasse Vilien Sørensen.
The book is a Festschrift to Søren Dietz, the first director of The Danish Institute at Athens and a driving force behind several of our archaeological projects. You can read the entire book online for free or order a physical copy here: https://www.sidestone.com/books/mediterranean-horizons

24/04/2026

Dear Friends, don't forget our Annual Meeting this evening. It's going to be great! See you at the Acropolis Museum at 7!

Dear friends! On Friday 24 April at 7 PM we have our Annual Meeting. You are all warmly invited. The meeting will be held at the Acropolis Museum and will, in addition to the Director's annual report of the Institute's activities, include a lecture by Søren Handberg on the ongoing excavations at Kalydon, as well as a musical performance by a Danish electronic duo who resided at DIA in 2025. More info in the invitation below and on our website. See you there!

17/04/2026

We are very proud to be part of this international event on Democracy which takes place in Athens next week. Every one is welcome!

16/04/2026

Dear friends! We are excited to present Danish artist Ida Kvetny at the Danish Institute at Athens. Her work - profoundly interdisciplinary and intermedial - explores how new technologies not only reproduce, but transform our way of seeing, understanding and experiencing form. Her talk, Sculptor in the Digital Age, takes place on Tuesday 28 April 2026 at 19.00 at The Danish Institute at Athens. Everyone is welcome - no registration needed.

Artist talk

03/04/2026

Dear friends! On Friday 24 April at 7 PM we have our Annual Meeting. You are all warmly invited. The meeting will be held at the Acropolis Museum and will, in addition to the Director's annual report of the Institute's activities, include a lecture by Søren Handberg on the ongoing excavations at Kalydon, as well as a musical performance by a Danish electronic duo who resided at DIA in 2025. More info in the invitation below and on our website. See you there!

24/03/2026

Efteruddannelseskursus for gymnasielærere i Athen 2027.
I februar 2027 afholder det Danske Institut i Athen efteruddannelseskursus for gymnasielærere i antikfagene. Temaet for kurset er Idéen om Athen. Vi besøger de de vigtigste sites og museer i og omkring Athen i en undersøgelse af, hvordan idéen om Athen blev skabt i den klassiske bystat og udtrykt i dens kunst og litteratur - og hvordan den i senere tider er skabt igen og igen. Lærere er Sanne Hoffmann, Rasmus Sevelsted og Allan Uhre Hansen. Hvis du kunne bruge en uges faglig fordybelse og inspiration til undervisningen på stedet selv, så tilmeld dig nu.

Undervisning ved det Danske Institut i Athen

19/03/2026

What is a good life? This was a central question in ancient Greek philosophy, but who can answer us today? Can modern psychology, medicine and related fields learn anything from the ancient debate? If you are interested in the answers - or simply the discussion - join us at the Danish Institute on Saturday for a symposium on the good life in ancient and modern thought. No need to register - just come!

Det Danske Institut i Athen er både en forskningsinstitution og et kulturinstitut. Instituttets formål er at fremme forskning, undervisning og kulturformidling inden for Grækenlands og Middelhavslandenes arkæologi, historie, sprog, litteratur, billedkunst, arkitektur og kulturtraditioner.