Evening hours for 34 museums
Entry to Greece’s museums and archaeological sites will be free for a few more days every year, while the opening hours of 34 museums will be extended to allow visitors access until late in the evening, the Ministry of Culture announced yesterday. Entry to all sites and museums will be free of charge on the first Sunday of April, May, June and October, in addition to every Sunday in the winter season – from November 1 to April 30. This will not apply to the peak months of July, August and September. Due to Easter, the measure will come into effect this year on May 12. Museums and sites are already open free of charge on public holidays, as well as on March 6, April 18, May 18, June 5 and the last weekend of September. Furthermore, 34 museums – including those of Corinth, Olympia and the Athens and Thessaloniki Byzantine museums – will stay open every Wednesday until 11 p.m. in the summer. Twenty of these – including those of Epidaurus, Nemea and the Athens Kanellopoulos Museum – will close at 9 p.m. on winter Wednesdays.
