Canada’s ambassador to Greece Robert Peck calls this "the largest exhibition of Greek treasures ever presented in North America" and "the most important exhibition Greece has ever sent abroad," following an exhibition "In the Kingdom of Alexander the Great" at the Louvre Museum in Paris in 2011-12, which drew almost 300,000 visitors during a 90-day run. Organising the colossal display –a stellar event - was no small feat: planning and negotiations for the Canadian -American tour took more than 2 years, via a consortium of 4 museums in North America: after Montreal, the show travels to the Canadian Museum of History (in Gatineau), followed by showcases in the Field Museum in Chicago and the National Geographic Museum in Washington, extending into 2016.

It was put together with the help of 11 ephorates of prehistoric and classical antiquities, and 7 museums: the National Archaeological, Acropolis, Numismatic and Epigraphical museums in Athens and the archaeological museums of Thessaloniki, Pella and Heraklio.

It is noteworthy that an application called "The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great" with augmented reality features - the first ever developed for an exhibition at the museum – was developed by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) New Media Lab at Simon Fraser University with funding from the SNF in Athens.

See also: the Globe and Mail’s Ancient Greece: See it in person, or get a taste in Montreal at a new exhibit by James Adams and the Ottawa Citizen’s How the Canadian Museum of History brought Ancient Greece to the new world by Don Butler; Watch the video "From Greece to Montréal" by the Musée Pointe-à-Callière