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Official Unit:
1st Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities

Athens (Prefecture of Attiki)

Telephone: 210 9238175, 210 9238724
Fax: +30 210 9239023
Email: aepka@culture.gr

 
 
Tickets
Full: €12, Reduced: €6
Special ticket package: Full: €12, Reduced: €6
Valid for: Acropolis Museum, Acropolis of Athens, Ancient Agora of Athens, Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos, 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)
Sundays in the period between 1 November and 31 March
National Holidays
The first Sunday of every month, except for July, August and September (when the first Sunday is holiday, then the second is the free admission day.)
27 September, International Tourism Day
Free admission for:
Journalists
Members of the ICOM-ICOMOS
Persons possessing a free admission card
Persons under 19
Soldiers carrying out their military service
Tour guides
University students from Greece and the E.U.
 
  Open

Winter:
From the 1st of November until the 31 of March 2010:
8:30-15:00

Holidays
1 January: closed
25 March: closed
Good Friday: until 12:00 closed
Holy Saturday: 08.30-15.00
1 May: closed
Easter Sunday: closed
Easter Monday: 08.30-15.00
25 December: closed
26 December: closed
 
  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
Aegosthena
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