The Acropolis Museum and an adjacent subway station in Athens were evacuated on Friday afternoon after an anonymous call warned that a bomb would go off inside the building. Greek police said the call appeared to be a hoax.
At 2.35 p.m. an anonymous caller telephoned the Greek newspaper Zougla saying an explosive device planted inside the museum would explode at 3.10 p.m. The authorities immediately evacuated the area and bomb-disposal experts searched the premises, but no suspicious device was found. The museum reopened to visitors after an hour.
The museum, just outside the ancient Acropolis site, is one of Greece’s most popular museums, attracting about a million visitors every year. It hosts collections of sculptures from Parthenon’s marble temples artefacts found on and around the rock from the Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece.
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