Athens Numismatic Museum

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Iliou Melathron
Entrance side of the building

The Numismatic Museum ( Greek Νομισματικό Μουσείο ) in Athens shows the production and distribution of coins and payment systems in ancient Greece . Medieval European coins are exhibited on the 2nd floor . A new department is devoted to monetary union . The museum is now housed in Heinrich Schliemann's former home , the Iliou Melathron , designed by Ernst Ziller .

history

Interior view of the exhibition rooms

Shortly after Greece gained independence in the 19th century, the state put together the first coin collections in Aegina . The collection has been continuously expanded through archaeological excavations , purchases and donations. The museum was founded in 1834, when the National Archaeological Museum was established.

Over the years the museum became an independent institute through several ordinances and laws . Initially, the collection was part of the State Library of Greece , where it was first presented. In 1946 the collection was integrated into the National Archaeological Museum. The museum was declared an independent institute for the first time in 1893 and then again in 1965. The exhibition has been at the current location since December 1998 .

Directors

  • Andreas Moustoxydis (1829–1832)
  • Christian Giede (1834–1836)
  • Ludwig Ross (1836–1837)
  • Kyriakos Pittakis (1837–1842)
  • Georgios Gennadios (1842–1843)
  • Georgios Kozakis (1843-1856)
  • Achilleas Postolakas (1856-1888)
  • Ioannis N. Svoronos (1890-1922)
  • Georgios Oikonomos (1923–1928)
  • Konstantinos Konstandopoulos (1928–1940)
  • Ioannis Miliadis (1940)
  • Irini Varoucha-Christodoulopoulou (1940–1963)
  • Mando Oeconomides (Μάντω Καραμεσίνη – Οικονομίδου) (1964–1994)
  • Ioannis Touratsoglou (1994-2002)
  • Despina Evgenidou (since 2002)

Furnishing

The museum's collection has 600,000 individual items, mainly coins, but also medals , standard weights , dies , stamps and other pieces from the 14th century BC. Until our time. The collection was arranged chronologically , analogous to the history of coinage . The museum holds a very important collection of coins from the 6th century BC. BC to the end of antiquity , from the epoch of the Greek Poleis to the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as the Medieval and Byzantine main collections from Western and Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire , as well as from all over the world.

Much of the collection is made up of coins discovered in depository finds , while the remainder comes from the original Aegina collection or from recent excavations in mainland Greece and donations.

Heinrich Schliemann's collection is in room II, this section pays tribute to his life, presents his numismatic collection and the work of Ernst Ziller, the building's architect. Schliemann's collection, which was donated to the museum by his wife Sophia Schliemann ( Greek Σοφία Σλήμαν), consists of 166 coins mainly from Troy .

In addition to the collection, there is a library on the history of coins in the house (12,500 books), an archive, and an elaborately equipped laboratory for the classification and conservation of historical coins.

Small selection from the collection

Location and visitor information

The Numismatic Museum is located at 12 Panepistimiou (University Street ) near Syntagma Square , which is also where Syntagma Metro Station is located. There is a museum shop and a coffee house in the garden.

Web links

Commons : Athens Numismatic Museum  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georgios Stylianakos Korrés, Cornelia Maué: "Heinrich Schliemann's residential palace Iliou Melathron in Athens". Special exhibition. (No longer available online.) Heinrich Schliemann Museum , July 8, 2009, archived from the original on January 29, 2013 ; Retrieved August 21, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schliemann-museum.de
  2. ↑ NUMISMATIC MUSEUM ATHENS. THE HISTORY OF THE NUMISMATIC MUSEUM. (No longer available online.) Numismatic Museum Athens, April 30, 2011, archived from the original on April 23, 2011 ; Retrieved on August 20, 2011 (English): “The Numismatic Museum is one of the oldest public museums in Greece. It was established in 1834, the same year as the National Archaeological Museum. " Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nma.gr
  3. ↑ Dimitris Damascos: The second palace of Troja Schliemann's house in Athens as a numismatic museum. Tagesspiegel, April 25, 1999, accessed on August 20, 2011 : “When Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) - the German excavator of Mycenae and Troy - married the Greek Sophia Egastromenou in 1869, he decided to settle in Athens forever and began at the same time, to build a representative residential building in the center of the Greek capital at Universitätsstrasse 12. Almost 120 years after the building was built, it is now home to the Numismatic Museum of Greece, one of the most important museums of its kind in the world. "
  4. ^ E. Ralli: Numismatic Museum. The permanent exhibition of the Numismatic Museum. Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, March 31, 2010, accessed August 27, 2011 .
  5. ↑ The address is: Numismatic Museum of Athens, Eleftheriou Venizelou 12, Ελευθερίου Βενιζέλου / Πανεπιστημίου, 10671 Athens (Greece), Tel. +30 210 - 3612519, see Numismatic Museum. Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, accessed August 27, 2011 .

Coordinates: 37 ° 58 ′ 40.1 ″  N , 23 ° 44 ′ 7.4 ″  E