Olympia: Myth - Cult - Games

The Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany) hosts an exhibition devoted to the ancient Olympia shrine and its cult and to the contests held there that are revived every four years in the modern Olympic Games.

Olympia: Myth - Cult - Games is an initiative of the Greek Cultural Foundation and the Greek Ministry of Culture. The German Archaeological Institute and the Martin-Gropius-Bau are partners of the project, which has loans from the Antiquities Collection of the Berlin State Museums. Over 500 valuable loans from Greece will be on display. Important loans from the Vatican, Paris, Rome, Dresden and Munich will supplement the grand panorama.

The world-famous myth associated with the name of the Olympia shrine in the Peloponnesus
since ancient times will be presented in three sections:
- presentation of the shrine showing the most valuable archaeological finds;
- presentation of the ancient Games in Olympia;
- documentation of the history of the excavations.

Date: until January 7.
Location: Martin-Gropius-Bau. Niederkirchnerstraße 7. Corner Stresemannstr. 110. 10963 Berlin. Germany.
Opening hours: from Wednesday to Monday from 10am to 7pm.