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  Administrative Information
 
 

Official Unit:
1st Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities

Athens (Prefecture of Attiki)

Telephone: +30 210 3214172
Fax: +30 210 9239023
Email: aepka@culture.gr

 
 
Tickets
Full: €12, Reduced: €6
Tickets available only at the ticket office.
Special ticket package: Full: €12, Reduced: €6
In case the special ticket package is issued at a site different than Acropolis, please exchange the Acropolis coupon with a free-pass coupon at the local ticket office upon your arrival.
Valid for: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient Agora of Athens, Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos, Hadrian's Library, Kerameikos, Museum of the Ancient Agora, North slope of Acropolis, Olympieio, Roman Agora of Athens, South Slope of Acropolis
Free admission days
6 March (in memory of Melina Mercouri)
5 June (International Enviroment Day)
18 April (International Monuments Day)
18 May (International Museums Day)
The last weekend of September annually (European Heritage Days)
Reduced admission for:
Greek citizens and citizens of other Member - States of the European Union aged over 65 years old by showing their ID card or passport.
Students of Higher Education Institutes and equivalent Schools from countries outside the EU by showing their student ID
The accompanying parents on educational visits of elementary schools.
Free admission for:
Cultural Card holders
Journalists with a journalist identity card
Members of Societies and Associations of Friends of Museums and Archaeological Sites throughout Greece with the demonstration of certified membership card
Members of the ICOM-ICOMOS
Persons accompanying blind and disabled
Persons possessing a free admission card
The escorting teachers of schools and institutions of elementary, middle school, high school, university and graduate level education during their visits
The official guests of the Greek government, with the approval of the General Director of Antiquities.
Tourist guides after demonstrating their professional identity of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
University students and students at Technological Educational Institutes or equivalent schools of Member - States of the European Union and students at Schools of Tourist Guides, by showing their student ID
Young people, under the age of 18, after demonstrating the Identity Card or passport to confirm the age
 
  Open

From the 1st of April
Monday - Friday: 08.00-20.00
Last admission: 19:30
Saturdays-Sundays & Holidays: 08.00-15.00
Last admission: 14:45

Holidays
1 January: closed
6 January: 08.00-15.00
Shrove Monday: 08.00-15.00
25 March: closed
Good Friday: closed until 12:00
Holy Saturday: 08.00-15.00
1 May: closed
Easter Sunday: closed
Easter Monday: 08.00-15.00
Holy Spirit Day: 08.00-15.00
15 August: 08.00 - 15.00
28 October: 08.00-15.00
25 December: closed
26 December: closed
 
  Amenities for the physically challenged
From 1st of April the elevator will be in operation.
 
  Suggestive Bibliography
Καββαδίας Π. & Καβεράου Γ., Η ανασκαφή της Ακροπόλεως, Αθήνα 1906
Τραυλός Ι., Πολεοδομική εξέλιξις των Αθηνών, Αθήνα 1961 (1)/1993 (2)
Μπρούσκαρη Μ., Τα μνημεία της Ακροπόλεως, Αθήνα 1996
Hurwit J.M., The Athenian Acropolis : history, mythology, and archaeology from the Neolithic era to the present, Cambridge 1999
Schneider L., Die Acropolis von Athen: eine Kunst-und Kulturgeschichte, Darmstadt 2001
 
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See also
Other museums and archaeological sites in the same prefecture
Acropolis Museum
Amphiareio, Oropos
Ancient Agora of Athens
Ancient Iera Odos (Sacred Way) - Estavromenou Square, Aigaleo
Archaeologcal Exhibition in the METRO Station "Akropolis"
Archaeological Museum of Aigina
Archaeological Museum of Brauron
Archaeological Museum of Eleusis
Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos
Archaeological Museum of Kythera