Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia - Thrace co-organised with the Museum of Byzantine Culture the exhibition under the joint event "Thessaloniki Cultural Crossroads".

The exhibition 'Light on light: an illuminatin story' narrated the story of artificial lighting from Antiquity to the present days, from flame light to the changes introduced by the invention of electricity in the way people realise and use artificial lighting.

This story forms part of the great narration of the conquest of fire, i.e. the beginning of the Civilisation of Man. This amazing conquest was followed by the double effort of lighting and preserving a fire. In other words, the story of artificial lighting is, at the same time, the story of the means for lighting and preserving fire as a source of light; this also holds true for the incandescent bulb which produces light from heat.

Collaborating Institutions that lent objects : Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, 16th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, 18th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiqui­ties, 27th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, 7th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, 10th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiqui­ties, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Greek Folk Art Museum, Islamic art collections of the Benaki Museum, Jewish Museum of Greece, Folklore Museum of Metsovo -Tossitsas Foundation, Science Center and Technology Museum "Noesis"

The exhibition accompanied by two editions, a catalogue and a short guide