Kotsanas Museum
Of Ancient
Greek
Technology

Collection

The unsurpassed contribution of the ancient Greeks in the fields of Philosophy, Fine Arts and Science is well known. However, the technology of the ancient Greeks and their incredible achievements in this field is relatively unknown. The aim of the museum is to highlight this relatively unknown aspect of ancient Greek civilization and to prove that the technology of the ancient Greeks, just before the end of the ancient Greek world, was shockingly similar to the beginning of our modern technology. The present exhibition of ancient Greek technology includes approximately 500 operating models of ancient Greek inventions. From the robot – servant of Philon to the cinema of Heron and from the automatic clock of Ktesibios to the analog computer of Antikythera. The exhibits are fully functional representations of the most emblematic ancient Greek inventions. All were constructed by Kostas Kotsanas, the creator of the museum, through 22 years of extensive research and study.