MAKING/HISTORY The Trojan Horse Project researching Greek Mythology Sketching Trojan Horse Concepts Making clay models Carving trojan horse models pouring bronze for an Adze and axes Raising an Egyptian Obelisk Testing An American Revolutionary Submarine Lifting the crew with the Perronet crane Painting the Gwozdziec Synagogue Ceiling

Odysseus, renowned for his may have appeared to be a replacement for the stunning success of its deployment brilliance, guile, and versatility, the stolen Palladium by offering the same endure among the most powerful and may be the world’s best known protection to the city. The Trojan citizens, graphic depictions of deception. The horse master spy. vulnerable now because of the loss of their was an effective tool of military intelligence beloved statue, were unable to resist bringing and strategic playbooks. The Greeks tried for ten years to conquer the awe inspiring wooden horse into the city. Troy, but two obstacles stood in their Secretly hidden inside the horse, and THE TROJAN HORSE PROJECT provides way: impenetrable fortress walls and the finally able to sneak inside the walls, Greek a perfect learn-by-doing educational journey. Palladium, a wooden statue of Athena heroes lay in waiting. In early 2016, Handshouse Studio and made by the goddess herself. As long as it The Greeks achieved victory not by brute the International Spy Museum began was in their possession, Troy would not fall. strength but through deception! discussing plans to reconstruct the Odysseus, in disguise, managed to sneak The legend of the Trojan Horse first ever, period-accurate Trojan into the city, steal the sacred statue and became one of the most iconic and Horse at full scale and install it smuggle it out to the Greek encampment, widely-known stories of Western at the Museum’s dramatic new solving one problem and possibly giving civilization. Recounted in histories, building in Washington, DC. him a solution for the other—to make a painted by artists, and sung by Students at Massachusetts College of new wooden statue dedicated to the same poets, it is rooted in the accounts Art and Design started a rigorous process Goddess. of our earliest storytellers, Homer, of researching the history of the Trojan The new sculpture—a horse, because Apollodorus and Virgil. Horse. They created detailed drawings, Troy was famously proud of its horses— The Trojan Horse and scale models, and reproduced examples

Drawing of Greek Boeotian Terracotta Horse, ca. 600 BCE researching Greek Mythology Sketching Trojan Horse Concepts Making clay models Carving trojan horse models pouring bronze for an Adze and axes Raising an Egyptian Obelisk Testing An American Revolutionary Submarine Lifting the crew with the Perronet crane Painting the Gwozdziec Synagogue Ceiling of ancient tools and processes. They have story of the Trojan Horse as an object of Handshouse creates projects outside of become history detectives: reading Greek deception linked to ongoing findings at the traditional classroom that energize history literature, looking at centuries of clay, the ancient site of Troy—the detective through the reconstruction of large historical bronze and stone artifacts, researching horse work of today’s archeologist. The project objects. These intense workshops bring to- breeds from ancient Turkey, and studying the will reinforce the Spy Museum’s mission gether scholars, educators, historians, ar- archeological ruins, architecture and boat to educate the public about espionage and chitects, engineers, anthropologists, archeolo- building techniques of the period. intelligence in an engaging way. gists, artists, craftsmen and students to create As the project moves forward Hands- a dynamic learning experience where everyone house Studio will offer Trojan Horse Travel HANDSHOUSE STUDIO is an innovative, contributes and everyone learns. Programs to Greece and Turkey. Students non-profit, educational organization that cre- will visit museums, participate in traditional ates adventurous hands-on projects through Egyptian Obelisk: Rick and Laura Brown building techniques and explore the ancient community-service, working with non-profit of Handshouse Studio, discovered how ruins of Troy. partners around the world as a way to explore the ancient Egyptians raised monolithic Handshouse will reconstruct history, understand science, and perpetuate monuments with little more than rope, wood, the Trojan Horse in Greece or the arts. Handshouse, co-founded by Rick and muscle and brainpower. After months of Turkey bringing international Laura Brown in 2002, has gained internation- investigation and research with traditional attention to The Trojan Horse al recognition for its pedagogical method of builders, Laura and Rick assembled a team Project and the International connecting institutions and organizations to of experts at a Massachusetts quarry to prove Spy Museum. It will bring a carry out bold and complex their theory for “Pharaoh’s Obelisk” of the contemporary context to the projects. PBS/NOVA Secrets of Lost Empires series.

Drawing of Horse on Mycenaean Chariot Krater, ca.1400-1370 BCE

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researching Greek Mythology Sketching Trojan Horse Concepts Making clay models Carving trojan horse models pouring bronze for an Adze and axes Raising an Egyptian Obelisk Testing An American Revolutionary Submarine Lifting the crew with the Perronet crane Painting the Gwozdziec Synagogue Ceiling ‘ ‘ The Bushnell Turtle: David Bushnell, a Jean Rodolphe Perrenot Crane: During the Gwozdziec synagogue. Leading Connecticut Yankee, had a daring idea to a 5-day workshop in 2002, a Handshouse over 300 students and professionals break the British blockade in New York team of eighty students, professors, and from 16 countries, they have done more

harbor during the American Revolution: master timber framers created a working than reconstruct a lost synagogue: they he would build a one-man submarine and replica of the 50-foot wooden, human- have recovered ‘ a lost world. In 2014, attach a bomb to the underside of the British powered crane, using 18th-century materials the Gwozdziec roof was unveiled as the ships to blow them up. Intrigued, Rick and and technology. The crane was originally centerpiece of the POLIN Museum of the Laura led the effort to build a replica of this designed by Jean Rodolphe Perronet in 1750 History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Trillium wooden submarine, nicknamed the “Turtle,” for the construction of a stone bridge over Studio’s documentary film “Raise the Roof”

using only the tools and technologies of the Loire River in Orleans, France. tells this story. the day. With help from students and ‘ professional craftsmen plus The Gwozdziec Synagogue: The wooden In covering the many facets of Intelligence, the submarine expertise of the synagogues of 18th century Poland The INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM United States Naval Academy, inspired Rick and Laura Brown of chose the Trojan Horse to stand as a they built, tested, and ultimately Handshouse Studio powerful symbol of Covert Action, those proved Bushnell’s seemingly radical to embark on a 10- clandestine operations designed to deceive idea. In 2004, Discovery Channel, year journey to an adversary. As such, its prominent England’s Channel 4 and France’s reconstruct the placement in front of the Museum will Channel 5 aired their TV documentary elaborate roof and serve as a constant reminder to be alert for film, “First Submarine”. painted ceiling of deception in dealing with our adversaries.

Drawing of greek Terracotta horse, ca. 800 BCE But come now, change thy theme, and sing of the building

of the horse of wooD… – Odysseus, Homer’s Odyssey

researching Greek Mythology Sketching Trojan Horse Concepts Making clay models Carving trojan horse models pouring bronze for an Adze and axes Raising an Egyptian Obelisk Testing An American Revolutionary Submarine Lifting the crew with the Perronet crane Painting the Gwozdziec Synagogue Ceiling

This depiction is subject to change. MAKING/HISTORY The Trojan horse Project

The Trojan Horse, corinthian aryballos from cerveteri, ca. 560 BCE

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