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  Administrative Information
 
 

Official Unit:
1st Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities

Athens (Prefecture of Attiki)

Telephone: 210-92.38.175, 92.38.724

 
 
Tickets
Full: €2, Reduced: €1
Special ticket package: Full: €12, Reduced: €6
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:
Persons possessing a free admission card
The accompanying parents on educational visits of elementary schools.
The escorting teachers of schools and institutions of elementary, middle school, high school, university and graduate level education during their visits
Free 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.
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
Students of Higher Education Institutes and equivalent Schools from countries outside the EU by showing their student ID
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 until the 31 of October 2013
08.00-15.00 Monday - Sunday and Holidays 08.00 - 15.00

Holidays
1 January: closed
6 January
Shrove Monday
25 March
Good Friday: open from 12.00
Holy Saturday
1 May: closed
Easter Sunday: closed
Easter Monday
Holy Spirit Day
15 August
28 October
25 December: closed
26 December: closed
 
  Suggestive Bibliography
Καββαδίας Π., "Τοπογραφικά Αθηνών", ΑΕ 1897, σσ. 1-32.
Stuart J., Revett N., The antiquities of Athens and other monuments of Greece 1922, vol.2, 1751-54
Broneer Ο., "Discoveries on the North Slope of the Acropolis", Hesperia II (1933), pp. 330-403
Broneer Ο., "Discoveries on the North Slope of the Acropolis", Hesperia IV (1935), pp. 117-127
Parsons A.W., "Klepsydra and Paved Court of Pythion", Hesperia XII (1943), pp. 191-267
Τραυλός Ι., Χριστιανικαί Αθήναι, Αθήνα 1962
Travlos I., Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens, London 1971
Dontas G., "The True Aglaurion", Hesperia 52 (1983), pp. 48-63
Τανούλας Τ., Τα Προπύλαια της Αθηναϊκής Ακρόπολης κατά τον Μεσαίωνα, Αθήνα 1997
 
  Services
 
 
See also
Other museums and archaeological sites in the same prefecture
Acropolis Museum
Acropolis of Athens
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