The Walters Art Museum and the Hopkins Hellenic Students Association co-hosted an evening at the museum in celebration of the renowned Archimedes Palimpsest Exhibition, Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes, last Thursday. Attendance was limited to sixty prominent attendees — influential Baltimorians and powerful members from the Greek community from across the nation.
The exhibition features texts contained within The Archimedes Palimpsest procured by conservation and imaging efforts, which researchers at the Walters began in 1999. It chronicles the route of uncovering the texts and the unearthing of Archimedes’ mathematical genius, illustrating that Archimedes discovered the mathematics of infinity, mathematical physics, and combinatorics.
To enhance the appeal of the Archimedes Palimpsest, Hopkins junior George Petrocheilos, president of the Hopkins Hellenic Student Association, collaborated with Greek-American Baltimore philanthropist and museum patron Anna Pappas to liven up the exhibition and peak the interest of college students, professors, families, children and Baltimorians.
The exhibition event drew a high profile crowd to the Walters that evening. The guest list included Congressman John Sarbanes, City Council Candidate Jason Filippou and Former Maryland Secretary of Business and Economic Development Aris Melissaratos, among many others.
A unique aspect of the exhibition is the integration of technology, art and history. Technology played a major role in the exhibition because of all the work that has gone into uncovering the journey that the palimpsest underwent.
The exhibition will be open to the public at the Walters until Jan. 1, 2012.
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