May 13, 2024
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The Acropolis Museum in Athens will mark the International Museum Day on Saturday, May 18, 2024, with free admission for all visitors. Free admission for all visitors is scheduled between 9:00 in the morning and 20:00 in the evening, while the museum’s restaurant will remain open until midnight. According to …
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October 24, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Shocking incident in the Acropolis Museum in Athens: A visitor defecated behind the Athena Niki relief on the first floor of the museum during visiting hours. The incident took place on Sunday morning, October 22 , and thus a time when the Acropolis Museum is considered as a model museum …
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August 23, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Five women broke into an excavation site at the Acropolis Museum in Athens and stole coins. The incident took place at 22.45 on Tuesday evening in Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, where five young Greek women -among them two minors- were noticed by a security guard of the Acropolis Museum to have …
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May 9, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
With special events and free entrance, the Acropolis Museum will celebrate the annual European Night of Museums on Saturday, May 13, and the International Museum Day on Thursday, May 18, 2023. On Saturday, the museum will extend its closing time by 4 hours to 12 midnight (09:00-00:00), while entry will …
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April 24, 2023
Archeology, Culture, Eat-Drink
Ancient Greek gastronomy and wine tasting is one of the events at the Acropolis Museum organized in collaboration with the Athens City Festival with the seocnd one being jazz music. Ancient diet & wine tasting at May 4, 2023 Jazz music at May 22, 2023 Ancient diet and wine tasting …
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September 14, 2022
Archeology, Culture
The president of the board of directors of the new Acropolis Museum and Archaeology Professor Dimitris Pandermalis, has died at the age of 82. He died in Thessaloniki following a few days of hospitalization. “History can make us wiser,” the emblematic archaeology professor said once about people’s relationship with the …
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August 12, 2022
Archeology, Culture
The Acropolis Museum and the National Archaeological Museum as well as the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki are only some of the Greek museums celebrating the August full moon on Friday, August 12, 2022 with special events with entrance free of charge. 105 archaeological sites, museums, historical monuments will …
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February 9, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A statue of goddess Athena from the Acropolis Museum was handed out to the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Palermo, Sicily, Greece’s Culture Ministry announced on Wednesday. Athena will be exhibited in Palermo in exchange of the so-called Fagan fragment from the Parthenon frieze that was borrowed to the …
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January 5, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Sicily is returning a fragment of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece in a cultural agreement of huge international importance. The fragment known as the Fagan fragment” depicts the foot of a goddess, Peitho or Artemis, peeking out from a beautifully crafted tunic. The return is in the context of a …
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November 25, 2021
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Ten fragments of the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon will be transferred to the Acropolis Museum from the warehouse of the National Archaeological Museum, where they have been kept until now. The fragments include parts of human figures from the eastern and southern frieze of the Parthenon and its northern …
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October 21, 2019
Archeology, Culture
The gold and ivory statue of goddess Athena once installed in the Parthenon of the Acropolis of Athens will be brought back to life in the Acropolis Museum on October 28, 2019, the Museum announced in a statement. “On the occasion of the Greek National Holiday of the 28th October, …
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September 25, 2019
Archeology, Culture
Greeks and tourists will have the possibility to take advantage of the free admission to the Greece’s archaeological sites and museums in the last weekend of September 2019. The Greek Culture Ministry offers the free admission on the occasion of “World Tourism Day” and the “European Heritage Days 2019.” On …
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June 6, 2019
Tourism
The Acropolis Museum celebrates its 10th anniversary with a series of events that include among others a walk-through excavation of an ancient Athenian neighborhood, a photography show and a concert by famous composer Stavros Xarchakos. The events aim to thank the 14,500,000 Greek and foreign visitors who cross the museums …
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May 10, 2019
Arts
A daily show in English next to the Acropolis Museum offers tourists a unique experience: to be transported to 5th century BC in ancient Athens and have the opportunity to talk with “Medea and other friends” from the ancient Greek world. “During his visit to the Acropolis, an unsuspecting tourist …
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April 15, 2019
Archeology
“Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles is fair and essential,” said the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos. The struggle to return the sculptures “is not only about Greece and its historical and cultural heritage, but also about culture as a whole, given that its result will be a real …
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March 14, 2019
Archeology
Entrance to the Acropolis Museum will be free of charge for all visitors from 09:00 until 18:00 on March 25, a national holiday that commemorates the start of the Greek Revolution against Ottoman rule in 1821. Visitors will have the opportunity to participate in tours of the Museum’s galleries that …
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October 16, 2018
Arts, Culture
Like every year on Greece’s National Holiday on October 28th, the Acropolis Museum open its gates to visitors free of charge. The Museum will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Visitors will be able to tour through the permanent exhibitions of the Acropolis Museum that include findings of …
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September 6, 2018
Culture
Travel planning and booking site TripAdvisor announced the winners of its Travelers’ Choice awards for Museums. The Acropolis Museum in Athens ranks 6th on the list of World’s Top 10 Museums. Award winners were determined using an algorithm that took into account the quantity and quality of reviews and ratings …
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March 21, 2018
Archeology, Culture
The Acropolis Museum will celebrate Greece’s Independence Day on Sunday, March 25, with free entrance to the permanent exhibits, the current exhibition on the Eleusinian mysteries, and other events, it said on Thursday. The museum will be open from 09:00 to 20:00. Ongoing events on March 25 include the following: …
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January 20, 2018
Archeology, Culture
Archaeologists called her Avgi – Dawn – because she lived at the dawn of today’s civilization. Last time anyone saw her face was nearly 9,000 years ago. She lived in Thessaly, Central Greece, at the end of the Mesolithic period around 7000 B.C. Greek and Swedish scientists reconstructed her face …
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