The Museum of Cycladic Art has launched Cycladic Identity, an initiative to preserve and highlight the character of Greece’s famous island cluster and attract donations and sponsorships, with which it will support organizations active in the islands with programs related to culture, biodiversity and intangible cultural heritage.
It’s International Museum Day on May 18 – this year dedicated to the theme “Museums, Sustainability and Well-Being” – and institutions all over the country are opening their doors, with free entrance.
After a 30-year wait, the island of Kythnos has inaugurated its archaeological museum. The launch ceremony was attended by Culture Minister Lina Mendoni.
It was only after removing a layer of wax and other material from a 19th-century restoration that Vatican experts understood the Hercules Mastai Righetti’s true splendor as one of the most significant gilded statues of its time.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, facing increasing scrutiny from law enforcement officials, academics and the news media over the extent to which its collection includes looted artifacts, announced on Tuesday a major new effort to review its holdings and policies.
The Acropolis Museum will mark the European Night of Museums on Saturday, May 13, with extended opening hours from 9 a.m. to midnight and free entry from 8 p.m.
From traditional folk museums to state-of-the-art, interactive technoparks, here’s our list of some of Greece’s lesser-known museums.
When the American Museum of Natural History’s new insectarium opens on May 4, a half-million leafcutter ants will share the title of star attraction.
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Monday inaugurated the Archaeological Museum of Messara, in the region of Gortys on Crete.
Admission to archaeological sites and historical monuments across the country will be free of charge on Tuesday, International Day for Monuments and Sites, the Culture Ministry has announced.
The government has announced the names of the presidents, vice-presidents and CEOs of five museums which recently became private entities in an attempt to give them more freedom and responsibility.
The leadership of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) has reportedly refused to appropriately honor the officers that in summer 2021 found intact two world-famous paintings that had been stolen nine years earlier from the National Gallery in Athens.
With a simple scan of their Digital Disability Card, disabled people can now have immediate and free access to the archaeological sites and museums that are under the jurisdiction of the Culture Ministry, without the need for a ticket.
People visited the The National Museum of Contemporary Arts with their dogs during an event encouraging visitors and their dogs to visit the current exhibition ahead of the World Stray Animals Day, in Athens, Sunday.
The historic Hellenic Navy vessel Velos, a Niki-class destroyer that now operates as a museum, was reported to have sustained damage during the storm that struck the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday.
The work of Karl Krazeisen (1794-1878), a Bavarian captain and self-taught artist who spent time in Greece in 1826 and is responsible for capturing images of the pantheon of 1821 War of Independence heroes, is the subject of a timely exhibition at the National Gallery.
