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Thessaloniki History Centre
 Billis Building, Hippodrome
Square
546 21 Thessaloniki
Tel.
2310-264.668, fax 2310-274.710
The Thessaloniki History Centre was created in 1983. Since its foundation
it has served the needs of the public and especially those of the scholarly
community according to the aims set out by its founders.
The Centre
belongs to the Library Division of the Cultural Services of the Municipality of
Thessaloniki and seeks to coordinate relevant municipal activities with those of
other scholarly and cultural institutions of the city and of individual scholars
in the field of history.
AIMS
The Centre has
been designed to accomplish the following:
 To
collect, preserve, catalogue and study primary and secondary
sources related to the history, cultural heritage, administrative,
social and economic life of Thessaloniki and its environs.To
carry out and encourage research in the history of Thessaloniki
and Macedonia.
To
promote national and international interest in the history of
Thessaloniki and Macedonia and to encourage collaboration among
scholars.To
develop the interest of Thessaloniki residents in the history of
their city.
OPERATION
 Since 1995 the
Centre operates in its own building at Hippodrome Square, donated by Anastasios
and Ioulia Billis. In its supervised by an Advisory Committee, which
includes distinguished scholars and other men of letters of Thessaloniki.
This Committee, in turn, has been divided into sub-committees corresponding to
the various activities of the Centre.
ARCHIVE
The
Thessaloniki History Centre houses the municipal historical archive. Part
of this archive is actually located in the Centre building and is gradually
becoming accessible to scholars. The Centre also possesses a number of
important private archival collections.
LIBRARY AND COLLECTIONS
 The Centre Library specializes in the city's historical literature.
It also contains an important photographic collection, a map collection and a
collection of cart-postals publicated in the beginning of the twentieth
century. The library is located on the second floor.
OTHER EVENTS
The exhibition
hall on the ground floor houses temporary exhibitions of historical material on
the city history, either from the Centre's own collection or from private
collections.
The auditorium on the third floor is provided with modern
audio-visual equipment suitable for the organization of conferences and lecture
series.
PUBLICATIONS
The Centre publishes historical monographs, conference proceedings and
"Thessaloniki", an annual publication of scholarly articles related to
the history of the city from antiquity to the modern age.
CONFERENCES
 The Centre organizes conferences and other scholarly meetings alone or in
cooperation with other institutions of Thessaloniki and publishes their
proceedings.
PROSPECTS
The
Thessaloniki History Centre wishes to serve as the principal documentation and
research centre for the history of Thessaloniki and to highlight the features of
continuity in the city's part, no less than its metropolitan characteristics.
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