Museums in Greece

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Sporades will be created on the first underwater museum
The unique project will be implemented in the area of ​​the northern Sporades and Pagasitikos Gulf. Underwater Park Museum size of 2,500 square meters. km will be ready in 2015, and at the same time will open its doors to the public.

Among the exhibits, which will be available for visitors, ten pieces of shipwrecks. In addition, visitors can go diving.

Northern Sporades - a group of 12 picturesque islands in the Aegean Sea, located to the north of the island of Evia, along the eastern coast of Greece. Four of them are inhabited - Alonissos, Skyros, Skiathos and Skopelos.

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Athens brewery converted into a Museum of Modern Art
Plans to build a new Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens could finally be realized: in the walls of the oldest Greek Fix brewery a few months later opened an exhibition space.

Fix Brewery began its work in 1863. In the mid-1950s, the era of industrial construction in Greece, the building was reconstructed by a leading representative of postwar modernism architect Takis Zenetosa. Greek and foreign critics have recognized the project one of the most exciting in the capital. In the 70s of the last century brewery moved from Athens, and the building began to fall into disrepair.

After much debate about its fate here was decided to open the Museum of Modern Art, but due to lack of funding had been suspended for a long time. They managed to resume only in the last year, and now they came to the final phase: finishing the facade. Then a few months will test the safety and, approximately, by the summer of the new museum will be able to receive visitors.

The main entrance is at the crossroads and Kallirois Frantzi. Also you can get to the museum directly from the nearby metro station Syngrou / Fix. In addition to the exhibition halls, administrative offices and storage in the museum are workshops for artists, a library, a special room for the demonstration of new means of visual art and a restaurant with views of the Acropolis.

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Opened a museum in Ancient Olympia Archimedes
A museum dedicated to the great scientist Archimedes of Syracuse, opened on Sunday in Ancient Olympia. Visitors to the museum will have the opportunity not only to see replicas of inventions, but also to test them in practice.

Archimedes created almost two millennia before Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo and Newton laid the foundations of the invention of technological breakthroughs of the future. Their demonstration proves that Archimedes many centuries ahead of his time.

Mastermind of the museum is an electrical engineer Costas Kotsanas, who previously created the Museum of Ancient Greek Technology in Katakolo (Peloponnese). He was able to make copies of Archimedes' inventions and submit them on two floors allocated for this purpose by the municipality of Ancient Olympia. On the ground floor of the new museum exhibits 24 inventions of Archimedes.

Among the exhibits - hydraulic (Archimedes) screw, mechanical planetarium, winch gears, diopter, odometer, dromometr, hydrometer, mechanical and hydraulic paradox, development control of the purity of gold, burning mirrors, giant cranes, military vehicles and others.

On the second floor of the museum also has 24 other mechanical inventions inventors who lived and worked in the time of Archimedes. Visitors will have the opportunity to see up close, "cinema" and "robot maid" Philo, very accurate automatic hydraulic (water) clock, water organ (gidravlos) and two-cylinder piston pump Ktesibiya, catapult of Dionysius. The museum is interactive and allows visitors to use the exhibits to see at first hand how they work beyond a mere reading of the historical information.