Museum Kits

The museum kits are suitcases that contain copies of objects, educational material and art games, and they were designed to bring the Museum’s world closer to the students and the teachers.

The Library is the first library in Greece to acquire the museum kits from the Museum of Cycladic Art and can be lent to primary education organizations.

The museum kits cover various subjects. The collection contains:

• Cycladic Culture Museum Kit:

The museum kit theme is the Early Cycladic Culture (the Cyclades are a group of islands in the southwestern Aegean around the ancient sacred island of Delos) and more specifically, the Cycladic figurines, the most representative artwork of this era.

The children with the help of museum kits learn what life was like in the Cyclades 5000 years ago and are introduced to the inhabitants’ everyday life and their occupations. The printed material for the educator, the pictures, the books, the educational games, but mainly the exact copies of figurines, utensils, and tools offer students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the civilization that was developed in the Cyclades in the 3rd millennium B.C.

• Ancient Greek Pottery Museum Kit:

The ancient Greek pottery museum kit contains copies of vessels from the geometric to the hellenistic period. It provides information on the basic stages of clay vessels construction, how they were decorated, their shapes, names and use.

In most museums in Greece, clay vessels are the most common exhibits. Besides, vessels are the objects that come to light with the greatest frequency in excavations. The different shapes and representations of the vessels give information about the daily life, clothes, occupations and religion of the ancient Greeks.

The copies of black figure and red figure vessels, the printed material, the pictures, the educational games help the student learn how the vessels were made and the various decoration techniques.