Acropolis Museum

The magical August full moon will be celebrated across Greece with many museums and Greek archaeological sites staying open until midnight and presenting various events free of charge on August 10. For the fourth consecutive year, the August full moon events offer great opportunity...

Fifty young Greeks living abroad, aged 15 to 17, will arrive this summer in Greece to spend time in the distant homeland of their ancestors under a hospitality program launched by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The young Greeks will...

On the occasion of its fifth birthday on Friday June 20 2014, the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, commenced an ambitious digital restoration program of the Parthenon sculptures. Horse riders of the west frieze are presented in 3D digital images...

"Maybe the British Museum refuses to give back the Elgin Marbles but we will offer an entire Acropolis as a gift to the Acropolis Museum", joked Michael Turner, senior curator of the Nicholson Museum in Sydney. LEGO Oedipus, LEGO Lord Elgin and LEGO Sigmund...

  UNESCO Good Will Ambassador Marianna V. Vardinoyiannis has launched a new campaign with the title “Return (the marbles), Restore (Parthenon), Restart (History)” for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles. In a statement during a press conference held at the Acropolis...

Caryatids,  the famous 2,500-year-old Greek statues located at the Acropolis Museum in Athens have just gotten a facelift. The black grime that encrusted the marble maidens has been stripped away using a specially designed laser system. At the start of...

Acropolis Museum, which was recently ranked among 20 best Museums in the world, will celebrate its fifth anniversary on Friday, June 20. The celebration events will include a concert by Leon of Athens and a 3D presentation of the...

“For years I have argued against holidays and giving back the Elgin Marbles. I was wrong about both,” said the British award-winning writer and journalist Howard Jacobson in an article about his first travel experience to Greece published in...

The inscriptions on the exhibits Epigraphical Museum in Athens, Greece, reveal which professions were the most popular among the ancient Greeks. Painter, mason (architect or carpenter), shipwright, guitar player, fisherman, washer woman, potter, are some of the occupations identified in the...

In light of International Museum Day on May 18, web magazine's "Achdaily" editors made a list of the top twenty museums in the world. The list includes famous museums, such as the Acropolis Museum and MAXXI, and some of...