A new state-of-the-art museum at Aigai, the capital of ancient Macedonia, explores the remarkable history of Philip II and the dawn of the Hellenistic age.
With the inauguration of the Polycentric Museum of Aigai, visitors can now explore Greece’s newest archaeological park and gain a more complete, multi-focus view of life and death in Macedonia’s ancient capital.
From cats and dogs to singing insects and drunken parrots, the ancient Greeks and Romans shared a deep and intimate connection with the animal kingdom.
A huge portrait of the Chinese Emperor Qianlong as a young man is situated at the entrance to the exhibition “From the Forbidden City: Imperial Apartments of Qianlong.”