Museum

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.

A dry tree branch, which was placed in the newly opened ?anl?urfa Archaeology Museum for decorative purposes, has been turned into a wish tree by local visitors. 

Foreign tourists were surprised to see things like toilet paper and scraps of cloth had been hung on the tree. 

The Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) created the new Museum of Underwater Antiquities aboard the floating museum “Hellas Liberty”. Built in 1934-36, the silo was once used for storing grain before its transportation abroad. The museum, to exhibit ancient relics found underwater, is expected to play a leading role in research and boost tourism to Piraeus.

The Baks? Museum, which was founded in 2010 at a location 45 kilometers away from the southeastern province of Bayburt?s Baks? village and brings together contemporary art and traditional handicrafts under the same roof, is preparing for the new tourism season. 

A presentation of designs for a new state-of-the-art museum for underwater antiquities at the port of Piraeus took place this week at the site where the new museum will be transformed from a current industrial site.
The presentation took place aboard a Liberty-class freighter now also serving as a floating museum.

Over 100 researchers from 23 countries will participate between June 6 and 14 in the 14th edition of the International Molinological Society (TIMS) Symposium, an event organised as a nationwide first at ASTRA Museum of Sibiu, the main theme being "the preservation and restoration of mills in museums," the organisers announced on Wednesday.

For a new project begun within the scope of Museums' Week, the Bilkent Cultural Initiative (BKG), the largest museum store chain in Turkey, has brought 3-D printing technology to the Topkap? Palace Museum Store, displaying a 3-D printed reproduction of a sculpture of Hittite King Suppiluliuma for visitors. 

Alternate Culture Minister Nikos Xydakis submitted a letter to Parliament on Monday focused on changes to the entrance fees at archeological sites and museums.

The letter outlines the creation of a special working group to elaborate data on increased ticket prices based on practices abroad.

Greece, swarming with museums, is definitely the place to be for International Museum Day! Concerts, guided tours and workshops are planned around the country with admission to most cultural institutions free.

Archeological Association of Acharnes

President Klaus Iohannis has launched, on Saturday, a call to all Romanians to attend the Night of Museums event as a way to rediscover the national patrimony and has addressed to Bucharesters especially the invitation to visit the Cotroceni National Museum on the grounds of the Cotroceni Palace, the seat of the presidency.

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