OLYMPIC Museum

The origins of the Thessaloniki Olympic Museum may be traced back in 2001 when it was first established as a Sports Museum. Almost a decade later, the museum reinstated its identity by becoming the Olympic Museum of Greece and one of the eleven founding members of the Olympic Museums Network (OMN). Affiliated with the International Olympic Committee, which granted it the Olympic privilege and global partnerships, the Thessaloniki Olympic Museum serves since 2008 as an agent of the Olympic spirit, ethos and heritage. Its primary goal was and still remains the presentation of sports and their promotion in a museum “alive” and “active”.

The Museum’s aims and objectives are:

• To preserve national sports and the Olympic Games heritage
• To promote the cultural side of sports
• To present the historic evolution of sports
• To contribute and impact research on sports
• To network and collaborate with the Olympic Museum Network
• To enable access to knowledge and information
• To motivate people assume active role in issues of sports heritage
• To create a library and an archive, a research center for the sports.