The library of archaeologist Evi Touloupa

The library was acquired by the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in 2022. It is estimated to contain approximately 4,000 items, primarily of archaeological interest.

Evi (Paraskevi) Stasinopoulou-Touloupa (1924-2021) was an archaeologist. She was born in Athens and attended the German School of Athens (DSA). She studied archaeology at the University of Athens and in Rome. In 1955, she began working as a research assistant at the National Archaeological Museum. She served as curator of antiquities at the Ephorate of the Ionian Islands, as head in the regions of Boeotia and Phthiotis, where she excavated the Cadmus Palace and organized the Museum in Thebes, and as head of the Archaeological Ephorate of Epirus. As head of the newly established Ephorate of Euboea, she excavated the Heroon at Lefkandi and reorganized the Archaeological Museum of Skyros. In 1979, she undertook postgraduate studies in Berlin, and in 1982 she presented her study as a thesis at the University of Ioannina, focusing on the sculptures of the Temple of the Daphnephorus Apollo in Eretria. That same year, she took over the directorship of the First Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and collaborated on the restoration works on the Acropolis. She systematically participated, even after her retirement, in the Councils of the Committee for the Preservation of Monuments of the Acropolis and the Organization for the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum. She published articles in Greek, German, English, French, and Italian, while selections from her columns in “Nea” (1990-2000) were compiled in the publications From the Pnyx to Pangrati (Friends of the Acropolis Union, Athens 2004) and Past and Not Forgotten (Okeanida, Athens 2008).