Treasures of Ancient Greece

The temple treasuries of Ancient Greece served as places of sacred gifts storage, as well as religious and cultural centres of Greek polis and colonies. The "Treasury of Ancient Greece" exposition reveals the secrets of this most interesting phenomenon of ancient culture.

The exhibition contains the oldest and rarest coins of Greek polis and colonies with images of mythological creatures, trade goods, cities’ emblems. The section demonstrates the truly impressive scale of the coin policy coinage.

The exhibition presents coins of the famous Ptolemaic rulers of Alexandria in Egypt and money with portraits of Roman rulers – evidence of the amazing time when Greece, conquered by less developed peoples, raised the invaders’ civilization to unprecedented heights. Along with this, the exhibition introduces authentic Greek ceramics, from amphorae for storing grain and olive oil to painted ceramics and lamps.

A special section of the exhibition is dedicated to the inventions and great discoveries of Greek philosophers and scientists: the first computers, meteorological stations, compasses and taximeters created by the ancient Greeks! The interactive book presented at the exhibition tells the visitors about these incredible pages of Greek culture and demonstrates the basic principles of operation of all the invented mechanisms.

The exhibition also includes treatises from the famous Library of Alexandria, which can be downloaded via a QR code; a thematic interactive that allows you to independently test the "Scales for measuring the Archimedes Power"; a multi-touch table with an interactive map of Ancient Greece and many more.

Excursions

A guided tour of the “Treasures of Ancient Greece” exhibition will take visitors to the wonderful world of the Antiquity era.

The museum guests will get acquainted with the oldest and rarest coins of Greek polis and colonies decorated with images of mythological creatures, trade goods, cities emblems. The impressive scale of the coinage policy will not leave anyone indifferent.

The tour will tell you about numismatic monuments of various eras – from the time of the famous rulers of Alexandria, the Egyptian Ptolemies to coins of the Greek colonies under Roman rule with the portraits of Roman rulers. Visitors will hear a story about how the ancient Greeks sailed the seas, establishing new colonies and developing trade. A naturalistic diorama depicting a ship moored to the shore, whose cargo – from amphorae to painted ceramics and lamps – tells us about everyday life, the main occupations and preferences of the ancient Greeks, will vividly demonstrate this sphere of life.

Thanks to the entrance to the exposition, decorated like the entrance to the Delphi treasury, visitors will be able to touch one of the brightest images of the archaic era. The tour will tell the guests that such temple treasuries of Ancient Greece served not only as places of sacred gifts storage, religious and cultural centers of Greek polis and colonies, but also could act as banks and were a kind of the first museums that stored the rarest things.

A striking addition to the tour will be the interactive book with the great discoveries of Greek philosophers and scientists, presenting the basic principles of operation of all the mechanisms they invented. A lot of modern multimedia objects filling the exhibition will help tourists to independently touch the history they heard about, which makes the tour not only interesting and fascinating, but also interactively rich.

We invite everyone to a dynamic and exciting sightseeing tour of the “Treasures of Ancient Greece” exhibition, which gives the opportunity to enjoy the aesthetics and beauty, achievements and discoveries, the rich history and culture of the Antiquity era, which became the basis of modern European civilization.