The Acropolis Museum

“The paramount monument of Ancient Classical Times now has its own Museum – at last. The Grand Opening of the new Acropolis Museum may be a symbolic event. Where the Aesthetics of Logic, the Ethics of Freedom and the Rationality of Beauty, are all fused together and carved in stone for eternity.

What you will discover [in the Museum] is not just a part of our History. It is also a part of our soul, of who we are…

With the anticipation that eventually – better sooner than later – they [the Marbles] will be re-united in their birth place and in the integral form they were meant to be.”

Antonis C. Samaras
Minister of Culture

“The new Acropolis Museum was designed with two objectives: the first to offer the best conditions for the exhibition of its exhibits and secondly to be a Museum that welcomes and befriends its visitors.

A walk through its galleries is a walk through history – between the masterpieces of the Archaic and Classical periods, but also in the ancient neighborhoods of Athens.”

Dimitrios Pandermalis
President

The Acropolis Museum Inauguration

The Acropolis Museum, designed by architect Bernard Tchumi with Michael Photiadis and their associates, has been constructed to exhibit the unique finds and architectural sculptures of the Acropolis of Athens.

Its official inauguration took place on June 20, 2009 and was attended by Heads of States and Governments, Ministers and other officials from around the world. The Secretariat General of Communication – Secretariat General of Information operated the Press Center for the official inauguration from June 17 through June 20 and facilitated more than 400 journalists and photographers, representing 95 Greek and 167 foreign Media.

The Acropolis Museum has a total area of 25,000 square meters, with exhibition space of over 14,000 square meters, ten times more than that of the old museum on the Hill of the Acropolis offering all the amenities expected in an international museum of the 21st century. The admission price for the museum has been set at one euro throughout 2009, while from 2010 the admission price will rise to 5 euros.

According to Culture Minister Antonis Samaras, the new Acropolis Museum received 90,000 visitors in the first seven days since its official inauguration on June 20. The average number of tickets for the e-ticketing section for the first five days reached 11,000, while visits to the museum's website exceeded 260,000 from the Americas to Nepal and Mongolia.

Visit the website of The Acropolis Museum here