Ministry of Culture

Two new buildings under construction near the Acropolis have caused a public outrage because their height has already blocked some views of the ancient Greek monument. The two ten-story hotels under construction are near the Acropolis Museum in the Koukaki neighborhood....

Five Greek municipalities and the Hellenic Archaeologists Association have appealed to the Greek Council of State, the country's highest administrative court, calling for the abolition of the ministerial decisions that will allow ownership of national historical monuments to be...

Museums and archaeological sites are closed on Thursday as Culture Ministry staff went on a 24-hour strike in protest that monuments are to be included in Greece's privatization fund, the Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations S.A.. The privatization fund...

The Greek Ministry of Culture dismissed on Thursday allegations by archaeologists that a series of archaeological sites are to be privatized. In a statement it said that properties of archaeological interest are not for sale. "Our cultural heritage cannot be traded,"...

The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports announced that an ancient marble engraved column of Attica style, likely a tombstone, was repatriated to Greece. The object was illegally exported from Greece and it was found at an auction of antiquities...

Greece's Ministry of Culture and Sports has rejected a proposal by the Greek fur industry to include its products in a list of unique cultural phenomena. According to the Fur Free Alliance, the submission by the Hellenic Fur Federation was...

The archaeological site of Delphi in central Greece will remain open on Tuesdays, but on a limited scale, the ministry of Culture announced on Monday. Faced with staff shortages, the ministry was considering shutting down the site and its museum...

Greece's Ministry of Culture is making an effort to correct the mistake of not including the Amphipolis tomb in the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) EU-funded program for 2014-2020. Culture Minister Lydia Koniordou explained that there was a misunderstanding regarding...

Museums and archaeological sites in Attica will be open over the weekend, as the union of the Ministry of Culture employees (POE-YPPO) decided to call off a strike they had announced for Saturday and Sunday. The union reached the decision...

The federation of the Ministry of Culture employees (POE-YPPO) has announced a 48-hour strike for this weekend, and as a result museums and archaeological sites in Attica might be closed. Yiannis Mavrikopoulos, president of POE-YPPO told Kathimerini newspaper that "the...