Acropolis Museum

The Acropolis Museum in Athens will soon have a new level, as excavations in the building's foundations unearthed significant findings. As the institution celebrates its ninth anniversary this week, Acropolis Museum director Dimitris Pantermalis quipped: "Now the museum has five...

As it gears up to celebrate the ninth anniversary of its official opening on June 20 the Acropolis Museum in Athens is making plans to usher in the digital era, with a judicial use of technology to enhance the...

The Acropolis Museum in Athens is welcoming the summer season with an extraordinary  free concert of music played on an ancient Greek water-organ. The 'hydraulis' was made in the ancient Mediterranean city of Alexandria, in today's Egypt. Ctesibius, a famous engineer...

Two artists from Shanghai Museum have introduced Acropolis Museum visitors to the Chinese arts of calligraphy and traditional painting in a four-day workshop. The showcase was part of the Shanghai Museum Treasures exhibition, part of the 2017 Greece-China Year of Cultural Exchanges...

Electronic tickets for 11 archaeological sites will be available June 1st just in time for the surge of tourists who descend on Greece for the summer Greek media report. In addition to the  National Archaeological Museum and Byzantine Museum in Athens,...

The Acropolis Museum is hosting an exhibition of the most important artifacts brought to light by the archaeological excavation in Eleusis (Elefsina in Greek). Titled Eleusis and the great mysteries, the exhibition will highlight the unique statue of the “Fleeing...

The reconstructed face of a woman who lived around 7000 BC will be revealed at the Acropolis Museum on January 19. "Avgi" is the newest reconstruction by a team under University of Athens professor of orthodontics Manolis Papagrigorakis and follows...

An 18-year-old girl who lived in Greece 7,000 years ago and was discovered by archaeologists in Theopetra cave, near the city of Trikala, has had her face reconstructed and is about to officially introduce herself to us. Eight years after...

Two treasures from Shanghai Museum were put on display on Friday at the Athens Acropolis Museum for an exhibition which will be on display until April 30, 2018. From Saturday October 28, Greece's National Day, to springtime, Greeks and foreign...

Four masterpieces, two from the Shanghai Museum and two from the Acropolis Museum, are to 'travel' to Greece and China, respectively, for display as temporary exhibits in the two museums. The two unique antiquities loaned by the Acropolis Museum are...