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Characteristic Project

Expected Results

Characteristic Project

A characteristic InfoSoc project is the e-exhibition on the history of the ancient Olympic Games with a € 5 million budget.

The purpose of this project is to provide an integrated presentation of, and to highlight the history of the ancient Olympic Games, one of the most globally important and interesting topics in Greek cultural heritage. 

The project relates to development of an innovative, cutting-edge technology museum-exhibition programme which effectively combines modern cultural-leisure activities of visitors with the possibility to combine, recreate and communicate knowledge offered by modern technology.

The e-exhibition on the history of the ancient Olympic Games:

• Will be developed and run at the building containing the old museum at Ancient Olympia.
• Will primarily be based on the knowledge and history recreation possibilities offered by digital technologies.
• Will be aimed at thousands of visitors to the Olympia archaeological site. 

The precise scope of the project includes:

• designing, developing and installing a cutting-edge, technologically innovative IT system which takes visitors on a tour, provides information about the history of the ancient Olympic Games. 
• producing, collecting, adjusting, translating and reviewing the content relating to the history of the ancient Olympic Games which will be presented via the IT system.  The content covers the history of the ancient Olympic Games from their inauguration up to 393 AD with brief references to sport as a concept and ideal, to the origins of sports and the main Panhellenic games.

Expected Results

Implementation of the project is expected to contribute to:

• Improved dissemination of information to visitors to the Ancient Olympia site about exhibits, monuments and the history of the ancient Olympic Games.

• Increased tourist interest in the area resulting in larger inflows, particularly young people, from all over the country.
• The creation of new jobs.
• Direct, major advertising of the Greek cultural heritage and Greek civilisation in general.

The direct beneficiaries of the project will be visitors (be they Greeks or foreigners) and residents of the wider area of Ancient Olympia.