Athens Acropolis Museum: A Beacon of Art and Culture is now 14 years old

 On the occasion of the celebration of 14 years of operation, a press conference focusing on the activities of the Acropolis Museum between June 2021 – June 2023 took place on June 19 at the Dimitrios Pantermalis Amphitheatre of the Museum.

Nikos Stampolidis, Director-General of the Acropolis Museum, taking to the podium, first spoke about the late President Dimitrios Pantermalis, “beloved teacher and friend,” who passed away on September 14, 2022. He spotlighted the newly established scholarship program and the olive tree planted in Pantermalis’ honor at the entrance of the museum, among other things, that demonstrate the Museum’s deep appreciation of his work.

Stampolidis then made extensive reference to the artistic events, the original thematic presentations, the programs for special groups of the public and for schools, as well as the exhibits that, on a periodic or permanent basis, are offered to the Museum’s visitors – who have almost doubled in the last two six-month periods.

Stampolidis spoke about the multitude of activities that place the Museum’s endeavors in a positive light: from the Festival of Religious Music to the presentation ‘A Celebration of Athens – The Procession and the Games of the Great Panathenaeans’, and from the exhibition ‘Clothes of the Soul’ to the hosting of the three clay Attic vases from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the ‘Aphrodite in a Golden Bikini’ from the Archaeological Museum of Naples and the two exceptional vases from the Royal Ontario Museum.

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