Acropolis Museum V Athens Participates in the celebration International Museum Day with a series of special events for visitors on Saturday, May 17and Sunday, May 18, 2025.
The theme of this year is inspired by the idea “The future of museums in rapidly changing communities”. On Saturday, May 17, the museum will be opened with 9:00 to 20:00 With the usual cost of the input ticket. The restaurant on the second floor will work until midnight (booking by phone: +30 210 9000915).
Like every Saturday in 11:00visitors will be able to join the gallery conversation “Water paths: by nature to myth and policy”. Under the guidance of an archaeologist, visitors learn how ancient ideas about water are reflected in the exhibits of the museum presented in a permanent collection and in the museum of excavations. Required Online booking On the site Events.theacropolismuseum.gr Together with the purchase of an entrance ticket on the same day at the cash desks of the museum.
IN 18:30as part of a new exhibition “Fragrant peppers, Michael Oskytz and ancient crops”which takes place from May 13 to October 31, 2025 at the Gallery of temporary exhibitions and was organized together with the cultural organization Neonin the audience “Dimitrios Panthermalis” a public discussion between the artist will be held Michael Rakowitz and one of the curators of the exhibition Elina Kunturi.director of Neon. Entrance free On the principle of “the first came – the first served.”
On Sunday, May 18, the museum will be opened with 9:00 to 20:00 With free entrance In all exhibition zones. The restaurant will also work at the same hours.
On this day the museum will launch presentations with guides new exhibition “Fragrant peppers, Michael Oskytz and ancient crops”. Archaeologists of the museum will represent original ancient artifacts from Mesopotamia and the southeastern Mediterranean, entering the dialogue with the modern works of the famous Iraksk-American artist Michael Ramitz. During the visit to the exhibition, visitors will be able to:
- Feel problems loss, robbery And forcible movements people and cultural heritage due to wars, colonialism or forced migration;
- To reflect on the role of museums as guardians of human history, sources of understanding of the past and the formers of the future.
Official site: Theacropolismuseum.gr.
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