Acropolis Museum

The theme of this year’s International Museum Day, which is on May 18, 2014, is “Museum collections make connections.” The Athens Organization of Culture Youth and Sports will participate in the celebration with various events at the city's most important...

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...

The Acropolis’ famed Caryatids, Greece's most celebrated ancient beauties, are currently undergoing an extreme makeover to clean the century-old statues from pollution, smoke, and whatever else has settled on the statues for over more than a century. The Caryatid statues, which until...

Public buildings and also private homes and businesses in Athens will open their doors to the public next weekend under the project "Open House Athens" that will be celebrating the cityʼs architecture and design. The Open House project started in London in...

Actor-director-activist George Clooney, who has taken on worldwide causes such as the Sudan tragedy, now has unwittingly stepped into an age-old fight between Greece and England over the stolen Parthenon Marbles being housed in the British Museum. He said they...

The Acropolis Museum is launching a new weekly programme with multiple thematic sessions on Greek antiquity. Specifically, the thematic sessions will be held every Saturday at 13:00 and visitors will have the chance to participate along with archaeologists and museum...

According to the popular Canadian newspaper, Toronto Star, the Acropolis Museum restaurant is among the top 5 museum restaurants throughout the world. The newspaper in an article entitled "Museum restaurants: Top 5 places to eat" ranks Acropolis Museum restaurant among...

An opinion piece by Dr James Beresford* - Since opening in June 2009, the €129 million Acropolis Museum has become the most popular museum in Greece. It has also become the embodiment – made manifest in glass and concrete – of...

In celebration of "Oxi Day," on October 28, Acropolis Museum will offer its visitors free admission and special events. October 28 is an important national holiday in Greece as it commemorates the day Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas rejected the ultimatum given...

Greek Culture Minister Panos Panayiotopoulos, addressing the presidents and members of the national committees for the return of the Parthenon Marbles of Cyprus, Germany, Sweden, Britain, Switzerland and Australia, in the framework of the International Conference held at the...