Acropolis Museum

Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Saturday reiterated a long-standing request for the British Museum to return the Parthenon Marbles, ahead of the 11th anniversary of the Acropolis Museum, which was purpose-built to house the antiquities found on Athens' namesake hill.

The apartment is small, measuring 60 square meters and housing four brothers and their aging mother. The semi-basement where they have been living since 2003 has a separate entrance from the other tenants of the two-story building in the Athens neighborhood of Makrygianni, near the Acropolis Museum. It has two bedrooms, a small lounge, a kitchen and one bathroom/toilet.

The Culture Ministry is planning eight interventions to improve access, safety and cost-efficiency at the Athens Acropolis, Greece's foremost archaeological monument, which receives some 1.5 million visitors a year.

The Acropolis Museum in Athens is suspending for two weeks three planned events as a precaution agaisnt the spread of the coronavirus in the country, it announced Wednesday.

There is absolutely no doubt that Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, needs a metro system to serve its commuters. 

There is no argument that could convince us we can afford to waste more time - or money for that matter.

Too many projects in Greece would have been shelved or put on the back burner if skeptics had their way every single time.

A woman walks past a neon-lit star decorating the Dionysiou Areopagitou promenade for the Christmas season, with the the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis in the background, in Athens, on Monday. The installations are part of a bigger holiday decoration project implemented in the Greek capital in cooperation with the Athens Digital Arts Festival. [Petros Giannakouris/AP]

Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed solidarity with Greece on the issue of the return of the Parthenon Marbles during his visit to the Acropolis Museum on Tuesday morning, which wrapped up his official two-day visit to Athens.

Marking the October 28 national holiday, the Acropolis Museum presents a tribute to the statue of Athena Parthenos, made of gold and ivory, and designed by Phidias for the Parthenon. Presentations about the lost statue - from its history and construction to the myths associated with it - will be held by museum archaeologist hosts in Greek at noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

On the occasion of World Tourism Day on Friday, September 27, admission to the Acropolis Museum will be free of charge from 5 to 10 p.m. (with last entries at 9.30 p.m.), while the restaurant will stay open, as it does every Friday, until midnight (for reservations call 210.900.0915). There will also be free guided tours, in English, starting at 5.30 p.m.

France has agreed to lend Greece a metope from the Parthenon displayed at the Louvre, to coincide with the 2021 celebrations of the bicentennial of the start of the country's War of Independence, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported Friday.