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Acropolis Museum Celebrates August Full Moon With Free Music Performance
The Acropolis Museum in Athens is set to celebrate the August full moon on Friday, August 12, with a free music performance.
Ancient Greece
Reunification of Parthenon Marbles is ‘an International Demand’
The reunification of the Parthenon Marbles is an international demand and not a dispute between the UK and Greece, the director of the Acropolis Museum said on Tuesday.
“The issue of the Parthenon Sculptures is not a dispute between the...
Archaeology
Acropolis Museum Marks 13th Anniversary with Half-Price Ticket
The Acropolis Museum will mark its thirteenth anniversary on Monday, June 20th by offering all visitors half-price tickets of five euros for all its exhibition areas.
At 3 pm, visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy music by the Woodwind...
Ancient Greece
The Secrets of the Ancient Neighborhood Beneath the Acropolis
The ancient neighborhood beneath the Acropolis Musum reveals life in ancient Athens long before the Parthenon and the sculptures on the Acropolis
Archaeology
The Face of Avgi, the 9,000 Year-Old Teen From Mesolithic Greece
A reconstruction of the face of Avgi, a teenager who lived in Mesolithic Greece, around 7,000 BC, stuns viewers.
Archaeology
Fagan Fragment Permanently Restored On Parthenon’s Frieze
The Fagan fragment became the first repatriated fragment of the Parthenon sculptures to be restored on the Parthenon frieze.
Ancient Greece
Entirety of Parthenon Frieze Featured on New Website
The entire Parthenon Frieze is now completely accessible thanks to a new website from the Acropolis Museum that shows the entire frieze, which ran along the outside of the Parthenon.
The frieze was likely created by the great ancient Greek...
Ancient Greece
Acropolis Museum Loans Kore Statue, Other Artifacts to Toronto
Starting on March 12, 2022, visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, can experience Kore 670 — a gift to a goddess, one of the best-preserved and most stunningly beautiful Korai statues from the Acropolis of Athens.
To...
Archaeology
Greece Loans Statue to Italy in Return for Parthenon Gesture
Greece loaned a statue of Athena from the Acropolis Museum to the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Palermo, Italy on Wednesday.
The statue, which dates to between 420-400 B.C., shows the goddess leaning on her spear (which is now...
Ancient Greece
Parthenon Marbles Fragment Returns Home to the Acropolis Museum
A fragment of the Parthenon Marbles which returned from Italy to its home at the Acropolis Museum on Monday was welcomed in a special ceremony attended by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The symbolic and practical gesture made by the autonomous region...