Kotsanas Museum Guided Visit, Athens

Visit the Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology in Athens on a fun family-friendly interactive 2-hour private guided tour full of hands-on activities that your children will love! Choose the activity you want to experience among learning all about ancient Greek strategy, telecommunications & cryptography or calculating mechanisms in Antiquity, like the world-famous Antikythera Mechanism. 

Are you fond of puzzles and strategic games? Test your skills in pawns and dice, where you'll compete for trias and enneas. Observe the rules of playing tilia and polis before practicing a few rounds yourself. Then, tackle the ostomachion of Archimedes, a puzzle consisting of 14 geometrical pieces.

Are you curious about how ancient Greeks communicated and sent encoded messages? On a unique interactive map, correctly place the fires of Agamemnon and announce the fall of Troy! Learn and operate the “beacons”, the first optical telegraph in history. Find out how to use the hydraulic telegraph of Aeneas, the first telecommunication device in the world and become the fastest messenger in history! 

Or, discover the calculating mechanisms in Antiquity! The Greek (acrophonic) abacus or the Antikythera Mechanism. Transfer to the past or future and find the position of the sun in the zodiac cycle, the phase and position of the moon, the month in the lunar calendar, the date and hour of the eclipse of the sun and moon, the dates of the most important games of antiquity, etc.

This private tour can take place all year round and you can choose -together with your travel specialist- the activity you wish to experience according to your children age and interests.

Depending on your accommodation, and your travel specialist’s advice, a private transfer to the museum can be arranged.