No prizes for working out that this complex did not start out life as a museum of Asian art. It was originally governor Thomas Maitland‘s mansion, also housing the Ionian parliament, built 1824.
Given which…
… General Maitland, I presume
#/media/File:John_Hoppner_(1758-1810)_-_Portrait_of_Sir_Thomas_Maitland_(1760-1824).jpg){kind=link}
The Museum houses plenty of cultural events. For instance, just as I was taking those pictures, this was going on:
Not for the last time, I find out about a gig here after it’s already happened.
Leave a Reply