The special exhibition „Gods, people and the money of the Greeks“ shows in cooperation with the coin cabinet and the antique collection of the city of Winterthur brilliant pieces of the Greek coin coinage from Vienna and Winterthur from the 21st of June to the 16th of October, 2011 art-historical museum, Vienna The art-historical museum. The first coins originated by the end of 7th century B.C. in the Small-Asian space and spread explosively in the whole Greek world. Quickly it was also recognised that coins offered not only ideal conditions to serve as a currency and investment, but also could be used as a news bearer and identity founder. Coin became thus the first mass communication means of the history.
It is a finish of the exhibition on the one hand, the economic aspect of the coin money in the Greek state world of the 7th century B.C. up to the beginning of the Hellenism at the moment of Alexander of the tallness (336 – in 323 B.C.) to light up; on the other hand, should be made clear to the visitor the varied pictorial language of the coins and her role as a communication medium in the political, cultural and religious everyday life of the Greeks. Besides, the collections of the coin cabinet of the art-historical museum and the coin cabinet and the antique collection of the city of Winterthur are complementary in excellent manner, because they accommodate select masterpieces of the Greek coin art which are complemented with other objects of the handicrafts from the antique collection of the art-historical museum as well as from the Winterthurer collection. The exhibition shall be seen from the 21st of June to the 16th of October, 2011 in the special exhibition hall of the coin cabinet of the art-historical museum and afterwards to the annual celebration 150 of the coin cabinet in Winterthur presented.
The special exhibition „Gods, people and the money of the Greeks“ shows in cooperation with the coin cabinet and the antique collection of the city of Winterthur brilliant pieces of the Greek coin coinage from Vienna and Winterthur from the 21st of June to the 16th of October, 2011 art-historical museum, Vienna The art-historical museum. The first coins originated by the end of 7th century B.C. in the Small-Asian space and spread explosively in the whole Greek world. Quickly it was also recognised that coins offered not only ideal conditions to serve as a currency and investment, but also could be used as a news bearer and identity founder. Coin became thus the first mass communication means of the history.
It is a finish of the exhibition on the one hand, the economic aspect of the coin money in the Greek state world of the 7th century B.C. up to the beginning of the Hellenism at the moment of Alexander of the tallness (336 – in 323 B.C.) to light up; on the other hand, should be made clear to the visitor the varied pictorial language of the coins and her role as a communication medium in the political, cultural and religious everyday life of the Greeks. Besides, the collections of the coin cabinet of the art-historical museum and the coin cabinet and the antique collection of the city of Winterthur are complementary in excellent manner, because they accommodate select masterpieces of the Greek coin art which are complemented with other objects of the handicrafts from the antique collection of the art-historical museum as well as from the Winterthurer collection.
The exhibition shall be seen from the 21st of June to the 16th of October, 2011 in the special exhibition hall of the coin cabinet of the art-historical museum and afterwards to the annual celebration 150 of the coin cabinet in Winterthur presented.
