The exhibits were packed with care, loaded in two large containers and began their journey from Piraeus to China, in mid-August 2017. In October of the same year, EUREKA arrived in Beijing, followed by our team from Greece, the curator of the exhibition Mrs Claire Palivou, the responsible for the museographical design Mrs Fotini Belliou and the technicians Giannis Exintaris and Sophia Papadopoulou. With the help of our Chinese partners and of the Greek Embassy in Beijing as well, with the contribution of our sponsors like the Institute of Research and Technology, of Daes Company in the insurance of the exhibits and of Hublot in the offer of two collectible watches inspired by the Antikythera Mechanism, a vast industrial space of 1500 square meters turned into an impressive presentation of some of the most brilliant technological achievements of the Greek civilization.

The inauguration took place on November 1st in an exultant way with the presence of the founders of Museum Herakleidon, the Secretary of ΕΔΑΒυΤ, members of the Greek Diplomatic Mission, the President of the Academy of Sciences of China, the head of the Federation of Sciences and Technology, the President of the China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing and a large number of media representatives.

The exhibition stayed in Beijing until the beginning of March 2018. During this period, it received more than 2,500 visitors daily, the response of whom was moving. Beijing was followed by Jinan, the capital city of the province of Shandong, and the Museum of Science and Technology there, with similar success.

The formalization of ΕΔΑΒυΤ–Museum Herakleidon cooperation was followed by feverish preparations. The exhibits of ΕΔΑΒυΤ were collected for inspection and repairs in a place chosen and hired specifically for this purpose. An order of a series of exhibits for the Museum's collection had already been placed, before.

In the summer of 2017, this space converted in a creation workshop, the exhibits were checked, repaired, others were manufactured on site, tested, photographed, filmed and in the end were packaged and travelled to Beijing.

Α number of important people were engaged in our endeavor: Professors Theodossios Tassios, Claire Palivou, who curated the exhibition, Manolis Korres, Kyriakos Efstathiou, Giannis Seiradakis, Xenophon Moussas, Stephen Miller, Giorgos Karatheros supported scientifically this gigantic effort. Dimitris Maras, Babis Karkatsoulis, Spyros Economopoulos, Ilias Sarakasidis, Kanelos, Giannis Exintaris, ISA Hoti offered their expertise and construction capacity. The new Acropolis Museum, the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina, the Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, the Μunicipality of Samos, Mrs. Georgia Karakalou lent exhibits to complete the collection. Eleni Nomikou and Fotini Belliou supervised the whole procedure here and in Beijing.

The decision of Museum Herakleidon to focus on its educational work, inevitably led to its evolution into a museum of Science and Technology, since the exhibits had to support teaching. Actually, Firos couple wanted to focus on ancient Greek Technology. Perhaps the Alexandrian origin of Paul Firos and the historic past of Alexandria influenced their decision.

In March 2016, the Professor of Philosophy of Hellenic Open University and of NTUA, Mr Byron Kaldis, brings in contact the Museum Herakleidon and the China Science and Technology Museum. In order to ensure the validity and scientific documentation of an exhibition that would represent the country and its history in one of the largest museums of its kind in the world, Paul Firos seeks and achieves the close cooperation with the Greek Association of Research on Ancient Greek and Byzantine Technology (ΕΔΑΒυΤ). In fact, the Professor Emeritus of NTUA and President of ΕΔΑΒυΤ, Theodossios Tassios, becomes the chief scientific consultant. It was in the beginning of 2017, when the collaboration between the two museums and the creation of EUREKA were officially announced. It was also the perfect occasion for this fact to be the first official communiqué as part of the year of cultural exchanges between Greece and China, that was just beginning.

Fotini Belliou studied architecture in Athens and specialized in the restoration of historical buildings and sets at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Her special interest in architectural heritage is being expressed both in her professional occupation with monuments of various historical periods, as well as with her active action in the field of protection and promotion of architectural heritage, and especially in Athens, through her participation in research programs and voluntary actions of Monumenta (civil, non-profit society for the protection of natural and architectural heritage of Greece and Cyprus).

Eleni Nomikou was born and raised in Athens. She served in several sections of Banking up to her retirement. Her involvement with the field of culture begins in 2004, with the appearance of Museum Herakleidon in the Athenian cultural landscape.  She organizes and coordinates the educational programs of the museum and participates actively in the design of the program "Art and Mathematics" which, in the course of time, identifies with the museum and changes the way the educational community approaches the teaching of mathematics and the cultivation of aesthetics.

From 2015, she undertakes the management of the museum and organizes a series of exhibitions and activities. She considers a milestone in her career so far the organization and coordination of the Great Exhibition "Eureka-Science, Art and Technology of the Ancient Greeks", which is currently being exhibited in Museum Herakleidon.

Eleni Nomikou is a culturalist, graduate of the Department of Greek Culture, of the Hellenic Open University.

Clairy Palyvou is a Professor Emeritus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Visiting Professor at Frederick University in Cyprus.

She teaches History of Architecture and Management of Cultural Monuments. She is a scientific collaborator of the excavation of the prehistoric city in Akrotiri, Thera and she has carried out many studies on restoration and saliency of Knossos, Mycenae, Thorikos theater, etc. She received the first prize in the competition for the pedestrianization of D. Areopagitou str.-Ap. Paul str., (with the partnership of 4 scholars). She is a Consultant-Expert in the field of protection and promotion of monuments (UNESCO, ICOMOS, Council of Europe).

Her academic work focuses on the architecture and art of the prehistoric Aegean and has been recognized with international awards and scholarships. She has presented her work in over 200 lectures, workshops and international conferences, as well as interviews in Greek and international media (History Channel, Discovery, BBC). She has published 8 books and many scientific articles.

She is founding member and Secretary of the Greek Association of Research on Ancient Greek and Byzantine Technology (ΕΔΑΒυτ). She has curated relevant exhibitions in Greece and abroad, has edited the minutes of two international conferences, as well as the annual tribute of the magazine “Archaeology in Greek Technology, from antiquity until today”.

Theodossios P. Tassios, Professor of NTUA, member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin (Italy), is an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Liège, University of Nanking, Democritus University, Aristotle University, University of Cyprus and the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens.

He served as President of international scientific associations of experts in the United Nations and the European Union and is the Honorary President of the Greek Philosophical Society, as well as President of the Greek Association of Research on Ancient Greek and Byzantine Technology (ΕΔΑΒυτ).

He has published 440 scientific papers and 50 books in various languages.

In September 2013 he was awarded the International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering by the International Association of Bridges and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Zurich.

Paul Firos was born in Cairo, Egypt and came to Greece in 1963. He graduated from the University of Toulouse as a Computer Sciences Analyst.

He immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1975 and founded Hotel Data Systems, a software company for hotel applications, which was sold to the French company Amadeus in 2013. Together with his wife, Anna-Belinda Firos, they collect artworks and in 2004 they founded the Museum Herakleidon, one of the first private museums in Athens, in order to exhibit not only their own collections, but also the collections of other museums in the world. Paul Firos is also the founder and chairman of PAN Art Connections in the U.S.A., having as main activity the art collections distribution in various museums.

The Greek Association of Research on Ancient Greek and Byzantine Technology (ΕΔΑΒυΤ) is an urban non-profit scientific company, founded in order to cultivate scientific research and disseminate historical knowledge about the technological achievements of Ancient Greeks, including the Byzantine era.

This purpose is served with more than three hundred open meetings of the Society, where relevant scientific objects are presented and discussed, with the organization of at least 10 workshops and presentations of books and films related to ancient Greek technology, with more than 15 visits/tours for the public, with at least 13 operational models and large-scale models in Greece and abroad, with the organization of four International conferences specifically on ancient Greek technology, with systematic seminars to teachers and tutors on subjects of ancient Greek technology, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, with the edition of three books with ancient technological objects.

The Museum Herakleidon was founded in 2004 by Mr and Mrs Firos and extends to two buildings in the historic district of Thissio, next to the Acropolis, the Ancient Agora and the Temple of Hephaestus. The first building is located at 16 Herakleidon str. and the second one 150 meters further, at 37 Ap. Pavlou str., one of the busiest pedestrian streets of Athens.

During the first decade of its operation, the museum focused on artistic activities and organized exhibitions with artworks of great artists such as M.C. Escher, Victor Vasarely, Carol Wax, Constantine Xenakis, Adolf Luther, Francesco Scavullo, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Sol LeWitt and others. At the same time, a plethora of cultural activities allowed visitors to explore the essence of each artist's perspective.