About Us

Welcome to We Adore Museums, the largest and most vibrant cultural network in Greece, boasting a community of 25,000 members!

WE ADORE MUSEUMS Team

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Ariadni Papaioannou

Ariadni Papaioannou is an Architect Engineer from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a passionate museologist with an MSc. In recent years, she has successfully coordinated collaborators, new ideas, and artistic projects related to museums and museological activities.She is an experienced art curator and has worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum. For 10 years, she worked as a supervising engineer on private projects, gaining significant experience in managing collaborators, personnel, and project management. In 2011, she founded her first start-up, and in 2017, she established the nonprofit organisation Friends of Greek Culture.In 2019, she created the cultural network We adore museums, which today has 25,000 members and is continuously growing. Ariadne coordinates all the organisation’s activities and welcomes every new idea submitted by collaborators and members. Currently, it is the largest cultural network in Greece, organising regular visits to museums and cultural sites, as well as artist workshops. Additionally, it offers online cultural seminars.

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Lina Paliaiakou

Lina Paliaiakou holds a degree in “Museology, Museography, and Exhibition Design” and has extensive professional experience in the cultural sector. She is a collaborator and representative of We adore museums in Northern Greece, organizing successful visits and guided tours in collaboration with private and public cultural institutions. In Athens, she collaborated with various art galleries, with her most recent collaboration being with Roma Gallery.She actively participated in the exhibition program, curating exhibitions, coordinating necessary tasks, managing communications, and handling the gallery’s social media. Her professional activities focus on advertising services, social media, and branding in the cultural sector, as well as a wide range of cultural activities.With multifaceted skills and a passion for culture, Lina continuously enhances her presence in cultural events, ensuring the ongoing development and innovative approach of her professional endeavors.

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Katerina Kofina

Katerina Kofina is a culturalist. She studied “European Culture” with postgraduate specialization in Management of Cultural Units at the Hellenic Open University and Applied Visual Arts at Vakalo and Doxiadis schools. She has worked for many years in the field of architecture and has collaborated with museums in the creation of educational programs. She has also collaborated with institutions and associations in the production of artistic and historical programs, as well as with the magazines “History – Papyrus”, “Science Illustrated”, “Historical Themes”, “Citizens”, “The Magazine” etc. She is a founding member of the Public History Production Group “historistai”. She also served as secretary of the Board of Directors of the Association of Graduates of European Culture.

Τσαμουρτζή
Michaela M. Tsamourtzi

Michaela M. Tsamourtzi is a graduate of Insurance Sciences from the University of Munich, specialising in Risk Assumption and Works of Art. She has also studied Greek and European Culture at the Hellenic Open University. Michaela M. Tsamourtzi has completed post-graduate studies at the Research Institute of the University of Macedonia, specialising in works of art where she has also gained a diploma in Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Materials.

She is an educator for adult students in Culture and Art and a certified Insurance Agent. She has extensive experience in delivering seminars to adult students in Greece and abroad, writes articles in the local press, evaluates works of art for auctions and private collectors, along with managing a number of Portfolios. In the past, Michaela has used her extensive knowledge when collaborating with prestigious auction houses to deliver the best service to her clients.

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Giorgos Sevis

Giorgos Sevis studied Cultural Tourism with a specialization in Cultural Marketing at the University of Sunderland-UK, on a scholarship from the EU. He also attended a series of educational programs in Cultural Management and Museology at the Hellenic American Union. He has held significant roles in organizing cultural events across the country (Mama Africa Arts Festival, European Music Day) and has managed self-funded productions of renowned artists (Goran Bregovic, Dimitra Galani, Psarantonis, Manolis Rasoulis, and others). He has served as a collaborator with cultural organizations in municipalities of Epirus and was a founding member of cultural organizations in the region. Recently, he has been involved in cultural-digitalization projects in Greece and abroad and participates in groups aiming to leverage artificial intelligence for the benefit of culture and the arts.