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…
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…
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…
After Jinan, the adventure of EUREKA outside the borders ends (for now) and the collection returns to be furbished, to be enriched with new constructions, to be redesigned in order to adapt to both buildings capability and to the exhibition design by our co-organizers and, after returning the loan works, to be presented to the Greek public. Out of all thematic units of EUREKA, the Technology of War and selected items that refer to Astronomy and to Automata shall be exhibited until the mid-summer 2019. A different museographical design is already being attempted, a fresh approach to the subject in…