Festive mood at the Acropolis Museum
This year, the Acropolis Museum invites visitors to experience a festive season with a family programmes, evening gallery tours for adults, exploring the exhibits hidden stories, and unique gift creations in the Museum Shop, not least festive meals at the restaurant.
Christmas carols
Visitors can combine a coffee or desert at the restaurant and listen to Christmas carols.
On Thursday 22 December at 11 a.m. the Museum will welcome the famous Greek National Opera’s Children’s Chorus for a Christmas concert, directed by Konstantina Pitsiakou.
On Wednesday 28 December at 11 a.m., the Female Choir Ensemble ‘Chórεs’ will present traditional carols and well-known songs from Greek and international repertoire, directed by Simela Emmanouilidou. These two concerts are organized in collaboration with the Greek National Opera.
On the last day of this year, Friday 30 December at 11 a.m. the Efxinos Club of Episkopi Naousa in Imathia will present traditional carols and Pontian dances.
Evening tours at the Museum and traditional recipes
Every Friday of the month of December, visitors can join a captivating walk in the Parthenon Gallery, where they can admire two unique vessels from Toronto, Canada. The iconography of these vessels is closely related to the Parthenon’s frieze. Clay and marble reveal known and unknown aspects of the Great Panathenaia, which visitors can discover together with the Museum’s archaeologists in the Parthenon Gallery. The gallery talk takes place at 6 p.m. in English and at 8 p.m. in Greek.
Goblin …mischief
This Christmas, goblins will invade the Acropolis Museum! There they will team up with various mischievous creatures of antiquity, such as Satyrs and Pan and… mix up the exhibits’ captions. As a result, Museum visitors will receive false information! In this programme set up in the form of interactive play, Museum archaeologists will be asking children to help them fix the chaos and keep the troublemakers away.
Days & hours: Wednesday 28/12, Thursday 29/12,Wednesday 4/1 & Thursday 5/1, 10 a.m. and 12 noon (in Greek only).
Participation: For children 5-10 years old. Free participation for children &general admission fee for parents/escorts.
Registration: Limited to 30 visitors per program.
Hidden stories of 20+1 masterpieces
Discover with the Museum’s archaeologists the hidden stories of 20+1 masterpieces every Saturday in December. Myths and fables, folklores and traditions, historical milestones and human stories transform into art and weave a vivid experience during an outstanding walk in the Museum’s galleries. The gallery talk takes place at 10:30 a.m. in English and at 12:30 p.m. in Greek.
Special gifts for the holidays
Before leaving the Museum, a visit to the Shop, to discover beautiful decorative objects, and Christmas gift ideas. This year’s lucky charm is ideal for a gift to a loved one, inspired by the helix which forms at the peak of the sima (roof gutter) of the Hekatompedon, the great temple built around 570 BC, about 120 years prior to the construction of the Parthenon.
