some of the objects are so valuable
that’s like what we call hand carry and
that’s basically the courier’s
handcuffed to the briefcase and escorted
through security the golden wreath of
meat up it’s like a crown would have
gone on her head and it would have
glittered and shimmered and shook as me
too walked around so how do you pack
something like that to travel imagine
that it has to fly across the Atlantic
it ended up going to Canada
taking it trough getting here and
basically built a box put the crown in
on its stand and then filled the box
full of teeny tiny little styrofoam
balls so that it was absolutely frozen
its face was a brilliant simple way to
transport a priceless treasure
that is so delicate that if you even
blew on it it would have moved and
glittered it’s the story of the Greeks
themselves Greek civilization where they
came from and how great figures like
Agamemnon and Alexander the Great came
to be it’s the first time for many of
these artifacts to travel to North
America to the United States and some of
them have never left their cases before
in Greece our first rock star person in
the exhibition is Agamemnon pretty much
a mythical story which came from the
Homeric poems that were recited oral
tradition and Heinrich Schliemann was
smitten reading Homer that it was
absolutely real so he went and excavated
a royal circle of burials and found five
golden tombs the masks that we have on
display in front is actually the one
that Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s
picked off with the ground saw a skull
behind it and said I’m looking into the
eyes of Agamemnon
we have a hoplite sculpture it’s a very
famous sculpture from Sparta it’s called
the sculpture of Leonidas we don’t
really know who it is it’s some soldiers
some foot soldier but is super
metaphorical about the epic fight that
the Greek city-states had against the
Persians and that Battle of Thermopylae
that was led by by Leonidas it was
basically cloud raining down of arrows
from the Persian so much so that
eliminated the 300 spartans over there
we’ve been working on this exhibition
for about five years a group from
National Geographic visited Greece and
made a proposal to the Minister of
Culture to do something really
outrageous tell the story of 5000 years
of civilization something that a normal
art museum wouldn’t do we have one of
the most famous sculptural heads of
Alexander the Great
this exhibition ends basically with his
coronation and after that Alexander
brings Greek culture to the rest of the
new world at that time that’s where we
come from Greece is an incredible
country
it was the largest most complete t-rex
that had ever been found it’s a very
complete specimen of t-rex it’s probably
about 85% complete the animal is
something like 40 feet long
that’s like what we call hand carry and
that’s basically the courier’s
handcuffed to the briefcase and escorted
through security the golden wreath of
meat up it’s like a crown would have
gone on her head and it would have
glittered and shimmered and shook as me
too walked around so how do you pack
something like that to travel imagine
that it has to fly across the Atlantic
it ended up going to Canada
taking it trough getting here and
basically built a box put the crown in
on its stand and then filled the box
full of teeny tiny little styrofoam
balls so that it was absolutely frozen
its face was a brilliant simple way to
transport a priceless treasure
that is so delicate that if you even
blew on it it would have moved and
glittered it’s the story of the Greeks
themselves Greek civilization where they
came from and how great figures like
Agamemnon and Alexander the Great came
to be it’s the first time for many of
these artifacts to travel to North
America to the United States and some of
them have never left their cases before
in Greece our first rock star person in
the exhibition is Agamemnon pretty much
a mythical story which came from the
Homeric poems that were recited oral
tradition and Heinrich Schliemann was
smitten reading Homer that it was
absolutely real so he went and excavated
a royal circle of burials and found five
golden tombs the masks that we have on
display in front is actually the one
that Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s
picked off with the ground saw a skull
behind it and said I’m looking into the
eyes of Agamemnon
we have a hoplite sculpture it’s a very
famous sculpture from Sparta it’s called
the sculpture of Leonidas we don’t
really know who it is it’s some soldiers
some foot soldier but is super
metaphorical about the epic fight that
the Greek city-states had against the
Persians and that Battle of Thermopylae
that was led by by Leonidas it was
basically cloud raining down of arrows
from the Persian so much so that
eliminated the 300 spartans over there
we’ve been working on this exhibition
for about five years a group from
National Geographic visited Greece and
made a proposal to the Minister of
Culture to do something really
outrageous tell the story of 5000 years
of civilization something that a normal
art museum wouldn’t do we have one of
the most famous sculptural heads of
Alexander the Great
this exhibition ends basically with his
coronation and after that Alexander
brings Greek culture to the rest of the
new world at that time that’s where we
come from Greece is an incredible
country
it was the largest most complete t-rex
that had ever been found it’s a very
complete specimen of t-rex it’s probably
about 85% complete the animal is
something like 40 feet long
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