The exhibition “brings together for the first time so many masterpieces of the Cyclades under one roof”, the head of the museum, Sandra Marinopoulou, says.

“We tried to listen to the women through their own voices,” the museum’s academic director Panagiotis Iossif, who is also professor of ancient numismatics at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, told BIRN.

Statuettes and large-sized sculptures, vases, jewellery, coins, funerary stelae, inscriptions with legal texts, frescoes, mosaics, engravings, manuscripts and icons, ranging from prehistoric to post-Byzantine times, are some of the exhibits in the exhibition that narrate the stories of women either through their own eyes, but almost always through the eyes of men.