Starting on January 28th, the Acropolis Museum will stay open until 10:00 p.m. on Friday evenings. Now visitors can tour the exhibits while also viewing the floodlit Acropolis, opposite the museum Friday nights.
The museum will also begin a programme for the conservation and restoration of the Caryatid sculptures. The sculptures are structural columns holding up the temple’s porch that were carved to look like young women from the Erechtheum.
The programme includes using laser tools to clean the sculptures from atmospheric pollution and remove factors causing damage, affix less secure areas of the marble and restore their structure. The museum has chosen not to move them from the gallery during the process, in order to avoid the strain of an additional move.
It also hopes to allow visitors to gain first-hand experience of procedures that until now took place in inaccessible laboratories.
(source: ana-mpa)
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