Natural science collections of Musea Aristotle-Teofrast
Long times and solidly collections of subjects of the live and lifeless nature, tools and devices, also the beginnings of a library science, connect with Aristotle and Theophrast’s names. For this reasons a sanctuary of Muses, located in the territory Athenian Lyceion, finds for the first time some functions close to that the new European museums carry out. Meanwhile, recognition of the fact of existence of collections still was based on the indirect certificates taken from the scientific works of the Lyceion’s founders. Archeological excavations (the end of the 1990 th - the beginning of the 2000 th) allow to compare this information with the spatial organization of Lyceion and its sanctuaries, therefore to have judge about approximate placement of collections. Besides it in this article the author reconstructs chronology of formation of collections from the basis of Lyceion down to the termination of East campaign of Alexander the Great, the main patron of this educational institution and the donator of collections.