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Free Thursdays at the Benaki Museum

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation's sponsorship gives visitors access to all the buildings of the oldest private museum in Greece

Newsroom March 4 07:25

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation is renewing its sponsorship that gives visitors free access to all the buildings and exhibitions of the Benaki Museum each Thursday. This is the second year of the program, and kicks off on March 5. The only condition to the grant is that the museum collect an equal amount through a matching sponsorship by another party.

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The grant, first offered between July 15, through to July 15, 2014, successfully increased the number of visitors to the museum every Thursday from 16% to 26% as it covers the museum’s operating expenses for that day of the week and accounts for one third of a total grant given to the museum by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

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