The exhibition includes 234 exhibits from 18 foreign museums and 176 from Greek museums.

Among the works that will be on display are the bronze statue of a youth that had been confiscated in Germany, coins, inscriptions, vases et al. From the National Archaeological Museum we will see Diadoumenos (an athlete binding a victor’s ribbon in his hair), a head of Silenus from Olympia, a group of two wrestlers, the relief of the hoplitodromos (race of hoplites in armour) ) (500 B.C.), the relief base of a kouros statue from the palaestra (510 B.C.), the neck and rim of an Attic red-figured calyx-krater by the Syriskos painter et al. The antiquities on display start with the prehistoric period and end in the times of Roman dominion. Some of the most important ones are the three Amazons (ancient marble copies), 2 m. in height each, which will come from Berlin, the Vatican and Capitolium.

The Greek museums that will send on loan antiquities to the NAM are among others: Vergina Museum, Kanellopoulou Museum, Epigraphic Museum, Delphi Museum, Corfu Museum, Thebes Museum, Chalkis Museum, Pella Museum, Delos Museum et al.

In the four units of the exhibition we will encounter the personification of agon (contest), mythical contests (of gods, demigods, mortals), corporeal and mind contests, and finally the apotheosis of winners. In the unit about contests we focus on the preparation of the body and exercise of the mind in the Gymnasia, including also the main contests in the panhellenic sanctuaries and in local games. The exhibits then will depict all types of sports, such as pentathlon, foot race, javelin throw, disc throw et al. Out of the mind and intellect contests we will see representations of poetry, music, drama and artistic ones. It is in this unit that we will admire the three Amazons.