Διοργάνωση: SCHOOL OF MUSIC STUDIES - ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI - IAML - LIBRARY - AGLIS
The music library community in Greece, welcomes you to the IAML Congress in Thessaloniki.
It is our great pleasure to host the annual Congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) in Thessaloniki, a city of 1,000,000 people on the northern border of Greece.
A city that has a unique history of more than 2.300 years and attracts millions of tourists from around the world every year. Since the first settlement in 315 BC, it has served as a center throughout the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman eras, contributing to its rich multicultural gastronomic identity. Once a Byzantine metropolis has preserved a large number of monuments, Thessaloniki is home to 15 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and its city center resembles an open-air museum of art and culture. It is a longtime melting pot of cultures, a feature that is reflected in the spicy flavors with eastern influences, as well as flavors from Europe and the Balkans.
In 2026 we will also be celebrating IAML’s 75th anniversary and the 10th anniversary of the Greek Branch of IAML with additional festivities during the congress.
The members of the Congress Committees are very proud to host the IAML Congress in Greece for the first time and to welcome colleagues from all over the world. We invite you to take part in a rich programme of professional sessions, workshops, and various accompanying events such as, concerts of Byzantine, ancient Greek, and contemporary Greek music and an exhibition of byzantine music manuscripts spanning circa 1,000 years. Tours of surrounding archaeological sites will be offered such as Vergina, where the tombs of members of the Macedonian royal dynasty were discovered and Dion, an archaeological site at the foot of Mount Olympus, where fragments of the oldest keyboard instrument (hydraulis) are exhibited.