Video: Looking back at a historic trip to Greece which led to the presentation of The Greeks – Agamemnon to Alexander the Great
In 2014, a team from the Canadian Museum of History travelled to Greece. They were there to tour archaeological sites and to visit the museums involved in the creation of the most comprehensive exhibition on ancient Greece ever presented in North America: The Greeks – Agamemnon to Alexander the Great.
Museum representatives forged a partnership with a consortium of North American museums, in collaboration with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs, in Athens. Thanks to this partnership, more than 500 artifacts from 21 Greek museums — including many pieces never before displayed outside Greece — were brought together. The exhibition features many Greek national treasures, including a number of priceless objects unearthed during the unparalleled archaeological discoveries of the past.
In this short video, we look back at some of the defining moments of that trip, which led to the presentation of The Greeks – Agamemnon to Alexander the Great at the Canadian Museum of History.
The Greeks – Agamemnon to Alexander the Great was developed by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs (Athens, Greece), the Canadian Museum of History (Gatineau, Canada), The Field Museum (Chicago, USA), the National Geographic Museum (Washington, DC, USA) and Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex (Montréal, Canada), with the support of the Government of Canada.