Costis Dallas
This paper presents an overview of documentation activities and plans in the Benaki Museum, the largest independent museum in Greece, with collections of all periods of Greek art and material culture. Firstly, an account is given of the Museum's distinctive physiognomy and of its information strategy; secondly, the past and current activities of its Documentation Department are presented; lastly, the planned object oriented multimedia information system of the Museum, codenamed MITOS, is introduced, after a discussion of some pertinent aspects of the complexity of cultural knowledge.