The Acropolis Museum celebrates 10 years of operation on Thursday, June 20, and throughout this period over 14.5 million local and international visitors have passed through its doors to enjoy the exhibits. On the occasion of its ten-year anniversary, there will be free entrance to visitors from 8 am till 8 pm in the permanent exhibition halls.
“It is a great pleasure for the Acropolis Museum to celebrate its tenth birthday,” Professor Dimitris Pantermalis told the Athens News Agency, on the occasion of the ten-year anniversary.
The most recent data show that more than 1,803,000 people visited it from June 1, 2018, to May 31, 2019, about 25% of whom were Greeks, 18% Americans, 7% to 8% French and British, and 5% Spain, Italy, Germany, and other countries.
