Erechtheion and Acropolis Museum highlighted in European Heritage Days event

The Acropolis Museum will enactment successful the European Cultural Heritage Days connected Sunday, September 28, with a special programme exploring the connections betwixt the past Erechtheion temple and the modern depository building, officials said.

The program, titled “The Erechtheion and the Acropolis Museum: an unusual past temple within a modern building,” will item architectural and humanities links betwixt the two landmarks.

The Erechtheion, located connected the bluish broadside of the Acropolis, is noted for its analyzable design, accommodating aggregate cults and ineffable sites while preserving Athens’ section traditions. The museum, a modern nationalist gathering designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects, houses masterpieces from the Acropolis and the remains of the past vicinity uncovered connected the site, its plan reflecting past routes and topography.

Archaeologists from the depository will pb guided tours astatine 10 a.m. successful English and 1 p.m. successful Greek, each lasting 70 minutes. Attendance is constricted to 30 participants per session, and registration is required online. Participants indispensable besides get a wide admittance ticket, presenting their preservation codification astatine the summons counters astatine slightest 20 minutes earlier the programme begins.

As portion of the European Heritage Days celebrations, the museum’s accumulation areas will beryllium unfastened escaped of complaint to visitors from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. connected Sunday. The 2025 theme for the pan-European lawsuit is “Architectural practice – bridging the past with the future.”