The Hellenic Museum Willem Street (William St), located in Melbourne, Victoria, is a museum dedicated to the history and culture of Greece.
The Hellenic Museum is located in the former Royal Mint Building, a Renaissance historic building built in 1869. The museum, which opened in April 2007, was founded by Melbourne entrepreneur Smallus Stallis (Spiros Stamoulis), born in Greece and immigrated with his family to Australia at the age of 13, with a special interest in Greek culture.
The Hellenic Museum strives to follow Greek history, art and culture, exhibiting a variety of mystical works of art, and providing visual technology to provide visitors with a comprehensive understanding of Greece through films, music, architecture, history, culture, and so on. Let's feel the legacy of Greece's legacy in Melbourne.
The Hellenic Museum has two permanent pavilions, Gods, Myths and mortals, and ONEIROI Dreams.
"the gods, myths and mortals" exhibits artifacts from the (Benaki Museum) museum in Benage, Greece, from the Neolithic to modern times, and reviews the history of Greek civilization over 8,000 years. Important exhibits include Neolithic pottery. Kickradi sculptures, Minos statues, Byzantine statues and manuscripts, post-Byzantine secular art and clothing, new Greek art, Greek revolution family saber and pistol, etc., the exhibition will begin in 2014 and will continue until 2024.
"ONEIROI Dreams" shows Australian artist Bill Heyson (Bill Henson) 's photographic installation, which features five important exhibits in "the gods, myths and mortals" to explore ways to preserve and record history.
