Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, Attica, Greece
5.0 (519 reviews) Monday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #5 in Athens Speciality Museums
Most entertaining museum in Athens
Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology in the heart of Athens. In a unique historic Art Nouveau building (Unfortunately there is no access for people with disabilities because the building has been listed and unfortunately no relevant intervention can be made), Pindarou 6 and Akadimias St. in Kolonaki, with a total area of 700 square meters, guests will have the unique opportunity to get to know a relatively unknown aspect of Ancient Greek culture through the exhibition "The Hi-Tech Inventions of Ancient Greece – The origins of our modern technology", which includes approximately 100 selected exhibits, reconstructed inventions, from the robot-servant and the "cinema" of Philon to the automatic theater of Heron, and from the Hydraulic Clock of Ktesibios to the Antikythera Mechanism. At the same time, the same building will permanently house the independent exhibition of Ancient Greek Musical Instruments with 42 fully functional, reassembled reconstructed musical instruments.
Address
Pindarou 6, Athens 10671 Greece
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Website
http://Kotsanas.com
Working hours
Monday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Monday, May 13, 2024, 11:48
User Ratings
5.0 based on (519 reviews)
Reviews
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5Lori 5:00 PM Oct 23, 2021
Fun stuff
This was so much fun! Learned a lot about how smart the ancient Greeks were. But for an unfortunate turn of events, we almost had the Industrial Revolution 2000 years earlier and not in England. Wow! Our your house Maria was charming and very knowledgeable. I highly recommend this small museum, especially for people with children of all ages (wish we had brought our teenager).
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5Rosa Maria R 5:00 PM Feb 19, 2022
An absolute MUST (with kids too)
A total MUST in Athens. Anyone interested in robotics, automates, application of simple laws such as gravity, communicating vessels, winch-mediated weight lifting, and patents in the ancient multicultural Greek world needs to see this museum (best with a museum guide!). I will awe you for hours! Discovering Philon's servant or seeing the Antikythera mechanism in place felt like being in a hyper-technological space that sadly got lost and forgotten in time. We need more of these physical laws into patents now more than ever!
