Acropolis Museum

The ancient neighborhood beneath the Acropolis Musum reveals life in ancient Athens long before the Parthenon and the sculptures on the Acropolis

The Acropolis Museum celebrates its 14th birthday on Tuesday 20 June and will honor its late president by offering its visitors a free tribute to Greek poetry set to music. The museum, one of the ten best in the world...

A reconstruction of the face of Avgi, a teenager who lived in Mesolithic Greece, around 7,000 BC, stuns viewers.

Greece's Acropolis Museum has loaned an ancient statue of a young woman, known as kore, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), where it is on view through January 8, 2024 in the Museum’s Art of Ancient Greece,...

A new mobile phone app will enable visitors to view the Acropolis in all its 5th century BC grandeur. The new app uses cutting-edge virtual and augmented reality technology, together with artificial intelligence and 5G to recreate the form of...

Austria will return two pieces of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, the country's foreign minister said on Tuesday. "I am very pleased that technical discussions are taking place between the Kunsthistorische Museum and the Acropolis Museum on mutual loans of...

As the Vatican Museums become the latest collection to return Parthenon marbles to Athens, the British Museum continues to give short shrift to Greece’s calls for repatriation. By Catharine Titi One of the most surprising claims the British Museum makes when...

The Vatican and Greece are finalizing a deal for the return of three Parthenon marbles that have been in the collection of the Vatican Museums for two centuries. The fragments are expected to arrive in Athens later this month, with...

The Kritios Boy, a statue displayed at the Acropolis Museum is one of the most important works of ancient Greek art and the most characteristic of the so-called "Severe Style." The statue’s torso was found in 1865 to 1866 southeast...

Achieving an agreement for the permanent return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece by the British Museum "is difficult, but not impossible," said Culture and Sports Minister Lina Mendoni in Parliament on Monday. Responding to a parliamentary question calling on...