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Several exhibitions have been staged worldwide, leading to the main "Antikythera shipwreck" exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. As of 2012, the Antikythera mechanism was displayed as part of a temporary exhibition about the Antikythera shipwreck, accompanied by reconstructions made by Ioannis Theofanidis, Derek de Solla Price, Michael Wright, the Thessaloniki University and Dionysios Kriaris. Other reconstructions are on display at the American Computer Museum in Bozeman, Montana, at the Children's Museum of Manhattan in New York, at Astronomisch-Physikalisches Kabinett in Kassel, Germany, at the Archimedes Museum in Olympia, Greece, at the Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology in Athens, at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris and at the Western Australian Museum.
The National Geographic documentary series Naked Science dedicated an episode to the Antikythera Mechanism entitled "Star Clock BC" that aired on 20 January 2011. A documentary, The World's First Computer, was produced in 2012 by the Antikythera mechanism researcher and film-maker Tony Freeth. In 2012, BBC Four aired The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer; it was also aired on 3 April 2013 in the United States on NOVA, the PBS science series, under the name Ancient Computer. It documents the discovery and 2005 investigation of the mechanism by the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project.
A functioning Lego reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism was built in 2010 by hobbyist Andy Carol, and featured in a short film produced by Small Mammal in 2011.
On 17 May 2017, Google marked the 115th anniversary of the discovery with a Google Doodle.
The YouTube channel Clickspring documents the creation of an Antikythera mechanism replica using the tools, techniques of machining and metallurgy, and materials that would have been available in ancient Greece, along with investigations into the possible technologies of the era.
The film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) features a plot around a fictionalized version of the mechanism (also referred to as Archimedes' Dial, the titular Dial of Destiny). In the film, the device was built by Archimedes as a temporal mapping system, and sought by a former Nazi scientist as a way to detect time portals in order to travel back in time and help Germany win World War II. A major plot point revolves around the fact that the device did not take continental drift into account as the theory was unknown in Archimedes' time.
On 8 February 2024, a 10X scale replica of the mechanism was built, installed, and inaugurated at the University of Sonora in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. With the name of Monumental Antikythera Mechanism for Hermosillo (MAMH), Dr. Alfonso performed the inauguration. Also attending were Durazo Montaño, Governor of Sonora and Dr. Maria Rita Plancarte Martinez, chancellor of the Universidad de Sonora, the ambassador of Greece, Nikolaos Koutrokois, and a delegation from the Embassy.
In 2024, Finnish band Nightwish's album Yesterwynde included the track Antikythera Mechanism. The band also partnered with Finnish watch manufacturer POOK Watches to release a limited edition watch, with elements referencing the Antikythera Mechanism.

== See also ==
Ancient technology – Technological results from advances in engineering in ancient civilizations
Archimedes Palimpsest – Greek parchment codex manuscript
Astrarium – Timepiece and astronomical prediction device
Automaton – Self-operating machine
Baghdad Battery – Set of artifacts claimed to be a battery
Ctesibius – 3rd-century BC Greek inventor and mathematician
Out-of-place artifact – Artifacts that challenge historical chronology
Reverse engineering – Process of extracting design information from anything artificial

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== External links ==

Bragg, Melvyn (November 2024). "The Antikythera mechanism". BBC, In Our Time programme.
New Antikythera mechanism analysis challenges century-old assumption - Arstechnica - Jennifer Ouellette - 7/10/2024
Weibel, Thomas. "The Antikythera Mechanism". Animated model of the Antikythera mechanism in virtual reality.
Asimakopoulos, Fivos. "3D model simulation". Manos Roumeliotis's Simulation and Animation of the Antikythera Mechanism page. The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project.
The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project. "Videos". YouTube. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
"The Antikythera Mechanism Exhibitions". National Hellenic Research Foundation. Archived from the original on 23 April 2012.
YAAS – A 3D interactive virtual reality simulator in VRML Archived 5 March 2024 at the Wayback Machine
Wright, M.; Vicentini, M. (25 August 2009). "Virtual Reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism". Heritage Key. Archived from the original on 7 November 2021 – via YouTube.
Metapage with links December 2021. at antikythera.org
Bronze replica 3D engineering manufacturing drawings and operating manual