A fortunate circumstance allowed the Municipality of Almyros to acquire a Municipal Art Gallery, with the donation of 65 paintings by Thanasis Akrivopoulos, gifted by the artist himself to the Municipality.

Through this act, the artist expresses the values of social contribution and becomes a model of active citizenship.

Although Thanasis Akrivopoulos left his hometown as a teenager to pursue art in France and Athens, he never severed ties with his roots. He always maintained a sweet nostalgia for his native land and remained a citizen of it.

He returns to it through his work, which serves as an intellectual legacy for its community. Almyros thus acquires a true treasure, providing a framework for the integration of the town’s artistic activities and marking an event of broader cultural significance in Thessaly and Greece. The gallery is housed in the appropriately adapted ground-floor building of the old Almyros Gymnasium.

Both this building and the adjacent two-story structure, as well as the nearly opposite Almyros Archaeological Museum, are the only historical and architectural monuments of our city that survived the destructive 1980 earthquake.
Together with the Archaeological Museum, the Conservatory, and the Local History Research Center, they form a unique hub of intellectual and artistic activities.