Acropolis Museum

The Acropolis Museum has put together a program of fun educational events this holiday season for families with children. These include a workshop (in Greek only) in which participants will build a miniature version of an ancient Greek temple with Lego, narratives (in Greek and English) on the people, heroes and monsters of Greek mythology, and music events.

The Hellenic Parliament Foundation and the Acropolis Museum have organized an interdisciplinary conference titled "Art and Democracy," taking place at the museum from Thursday, December 7, to Saturday, December 9, with free admission.

The Acropolis Museum, in cooperation with the Onassis Foundation, presents the exhibition "Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC-200 AD," which explores the emotional world of the ancients and how this was reflected in the art they produced.

The Acropolis Museum will be celebrating European Heritage Days on September 23 and 24, and in a special gesture to the public will be waiving admission fees between 5 and 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Greece's left-led administration has shown an uncanny ability to adapt to political developments, in part thanks to its constant PR stunts.

The Athens Open-Air Film Festival presents the 1986 Brazilian-American drama "Kiss of the Spider Woman," directed by Hector Babenco, adapted by Leonard Schrader from the novel by Manuel Puig and starring William Hurt, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga.

The Acropolis Museum, in cooperation with the Onassis Foundation, presents the exhibition "Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC-200 AD." Running from July 18 through October 19, the show explores the emotional world of the ancients and how this was reflected in the art they produced.

The Acropolis Museum celebrates its eighth birthday on Tuesday, June 20. With free admission from 8 p.m. onwards, the museum will screen a film about recent findings from the caves around the Acropolis, sites that were first inhabited in prehistoric times, and developed into important places of worship in antiquity.

The Acropolis Museum will be taking part in worldwide International Museum Day and the European Nights of Museums celebrations taking place and around May 18 with a series of actions and events. The theme chosen for 2017 is “Museums and contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums”.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (center) and his wife Elke Buedenbender are guided around the Acropolis Museum by its president, Dimitris Pantermalis (r), on Saturday. Steinmeier, in Athens on a two-day visit, also attended the opening of the documenta 14 art exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST). "I cannot imagine [the EU] without Greece.