Museology

The European Museum Forum (EMF) has nominated the southwestern province of Muğla's Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology for the 2025 European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA), the Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy has announced.

The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, in the presence of Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, welcomed the return of a Roman-era marble male head from the Archaeological Museum of Münster University, Germany.

The Acropolis Museum is set to participate in the 2024 European Days of Conservation-Restoration with a series of special workshop tours on October 17, 18 and 20.

Titled "From the Ground to the Museum," the event offers visitors a behind-the-scenes look at how ancient artifacts uncovered beneath and around the museum are preserved and displayed.

A rare bronze couch dating back to 530 B.C., which was removed from a grave near the western province of Manisa during illegal excavations and smuggled abroad, has been returned to Türkiye by the J. Paul Getty Museum in the U.S. The number of artifacts brought to the country this year has reached 36.

More than a hundred archaeological sites, historical sites, museums and monuments, across the country will welcome the public under the moonlight on August 19, to mark the August full moon.

Events will take place at over fifty archaeological sites and museums, while as many will remain open to the public with free admission.

The former director of the British Museum has called for sharing the Parthenon Sculptures with Greece and suggested that foreign visitors should pay an entrance fee to view the exhibits in London.

Greece's archaeological sites and museums had a very promising start to the year, ticket figures published by the country's statistical authority showed on Tuesday.

The Culture and Tourism Ministry has announced that the Ephesus Experience Museum, located in the ancient city of Ephesus and a UNESCO World Heritage Site has won the Mondo-Dr Awards.

Italy was returned 600 antiquities that were looted or stolen from its territory by the US at a ceremony

Italy has celebrated the return of around 600 antiquities from the US, including ancient bronze statues, gold coins, mosaics and manuscripts valued at 60 million euros, that were looted years ago, sold to US museums, galleries and collectors and recovered as a result of criminal investigations.