ETM - an interactive exhibition from Athens, "Archimedes and his Time".
The exhibits in the exhibition have been collected from the Kostas Kotsanos Ancient Greek Museum of Technology in Athens, Heraklion (Crete), the historic city of Olympia, and the port of Katakolos.
The Greek Museum brings to life some 350 remarkable ancient inventions and presents functional models of them, from robots, the first cinema, the analogue computer, the first vending machine that filled customers' cups with... holy water during the church's hours of idleness, to military engineering, the measurement of the distances between celestial bodies, cryptographic techniques, scientific illusions, sports, games and much more.
The exhibition aims to show that ancient Greek technology, just before the end of the ancient world, was strikingly similar to the beginnings of our modern technology. It was only after a millennium of maturity that mankind was able to recapture these amazing, forgotten technologies.
The exhibition includes interactive exhibits that allow visitors to test the principles of how ancient technologies worked.