Acropolis Museum

The US travel magazine ‘Travel Weekly’ shows the new dynamic personality of Greece of 2015 to its readers, who are mainly professionals of tourism industry of the US, writing an enthusiastic 6-page article on the beauties of Greece.

The Acropolis Museum will offer its visitors the opportunity to discover the landscape, the people and the archaeological finds of Samothrace island with the assistance of archaeologists-curators within the framework of the European Cultural Heritage Days and the World Tourism Day.

Events at nearly 100 archaeological sites, museums and monuments around Greece are scheduled for the evening of Saturday, Aug. 29, which marks the full moon of summer’s last month.

140 events across dozens of archeological sites and museums around Greece are being held to celebrate the full moon on August 29. Apart from the concerts, theater performances, exhibitions, film screenings and other events there will be admission to all sites free of charge.

The Acropolis Museum will celebrate the August Full Moon on Saturday, August 29, 2015 with the music and dance event titled ‘Tango Acropolis’.

From 8.30 p.m. until 11.30 p.m., the Museum’s entrance courtyard will turn into a dance floor where world-renowned artists will present tango choreographies before whirling the public into a world of dance and music.

Both Athenians and tourists from abroad have embraced it as one of their favorite places, and numbers tell the whole story. Around 8 million people have visited the new Acropolis Museum since 2009, with an average of 4,000 people per day.

By Elis Kiss

Every Saturday and every Sunday, the Acropolis Museum welcomes visitors to its Virtual Reality Theater where visitors have the opportunity to learn more about the Acropolis monuments from brief 3D video screenings. The ten-minute film “Acropolis in Antiquity” presents the topography and the monuments of the Rock of the Acropolis during the prehistoric, the Archaic and the classical period.

International Museum Day has been celebrated worldwide on May 18 every year since 1977. The day is aimed at raising awareness on how important museums are in the development of society. Greece, a hub of culture, could not be missing from celebrations with a number of activities planned at museums around the country.

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The Acropolis Museum (D. Areopagitou Street) is celebrating European Night of Museums on May 16 with a number of events.

Friday, May 16

Talks

A free talk on “Images, Beliefs, Cults” is part of the Museum’s alternating Saturday talks with presentations in Greek at 8.30 p.m. and 10.30 p.m. There will be 35 people per talk.

Music