"Kostas Kotsanas" Museum of Ancient Greek Technology

“Kostas Kotsanas” Museum of Ancient Greek Technology

“Kostas Kotsanas” Museum of Ancient Greek Technology is located in the “heart” of Athens, within walking distance from the Hellenic Parliament House in Syntagma. In a historic Art Nouveau building of 700 sq.m., visitors have the rare chance to discover a relatively unknown aspect of ancient Greek civilization, through the permanent exhibition “Ancient Greece – The Origins of Technology”.

The exhibition features over 100 selected exhibits, all functional and interactive: from the automatic servant of Philon (the first operating robot of humanity) to the “static” and mobile automatic theatres (the “cinema” and automotive “puppet show” of ancient Greeks, respectively) of Heron of Alexandria; from the automatic hydraulic clock of Ctesibius to the Antikythera mechanism, the world’s first analogue computer.

The Athens museum is part of the network of Kostas Kotsanas Museums, which also operates permanent museums in Heraklion (Crete), Ancient Olympia and Katakolo. As a cultural organization, the awarded Kotsana Museum has conducted more than 30 years of painstaking research and is dedicated to highlighting ancient Greek technology through its touring exhibitions in Greece and abroad.