Acropolis Museum

Acropolis Birthday | Athens | June 20

The Acropolis Museum celebrates its eighth birthday on Tuesday, June 20. With free admission from 8 p.m. onwards, the museum will screen a film about recent findings from the caves around the Acropolis, sites that were first inhabited in prehistoric times, and developed into important places of worship in antiquity.

Acropolis Museum to take part International Museum Day (programme)

The Acropolis Museum will be taking part in worldwide International Museum Day and the European Nights of Museums celebrations taking place and around May 18 with a series of actions and events. The theme chosen for 2017 is “Museums and contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums”.

German president visits Acropolis Museum

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (center) and his wife Elke Buedenbender are guided around the Acropolis Museum by its president, Dimitris Pantermalis (r), on Saturday. Steinmeier, in Athens on a two-day visit, also attended the opening of the documenta 14 art exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST). "I cannot imagine [the EU] without Greece.

German President Steinmeier visits Acropolis Museum (photos)

The President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steimeier visited the Acropolis Museum accompanied by his wife Elke Büdenbender on Saturday morning. After attending the opening of the “Documenta 14” at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the German President was photographed with the Acropolis in the background.

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