opening exhibition: 514 of over 30,000 moveable objects.
not preseented by typology but to give "prominence to their place of discovery"
"aid of wall texts, photographs, drawings,projections, and reconstructions to aid visitors"
"The display cases, coded by color and shape, denoted the category and placeof origin of their contents, respectively"
"Thus cases painted with backgrounds of blue, thecolor of the horizon and of the Aegean, contained remains related to public and private life,while light brown represented the shafts in which "Peisistratean" water pipelines were built(cf. no. 30). At the same time, rectangular cases referred to buildings, and semi-cylindricalones to water wells"