The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on the surrounding slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece. It also lies over the ruins of a part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens. More than 4,250 objects are exhibited over an area of 14,000 square metres.

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• The entrance fee to the museum was €1 for the first year and €5 thereafter. As of 2019, the entrance fee is 10€.
• The excavation below ground level continues. The site and process are visible through the ground level glass flooring. Also of June 2019 the site is available for visitation.
• The Acropolis Museum was selected as the motif for a commemorative Euro coin edition: the €10 Greek Acropolis Museum commemorative coin, minted in 2008 to mark the relocation of the museum. On the obverse is a panoramic view of the Acropolis and the new museum lies at the base.
• During the International Museum Day the museum remains open until late with free entry and many events and activities for its visitors.
• During the August full moon nights, the museum remains open until midnight and welcomes visitors for free. Also the same night concerts take place on the museum’s courtyard.
• In the first two months since the museum opened, it was visited by 523,540 people (an average of 9,200 a day). Of these, 60 percent were foreign visitors. During the same two-month period, 409,000 hits by unique visitors from 180 countries were recorded by the museum’s website.
• Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in Vienna, have donated (October 2014 – February 2015) to the Acropolis Museum a quadriga with the goddess Nike from the collection of Theophil Hansen, the great architect of neoclassical buildings in Greece and central Europe in the 19th century.
• The University of Sydney’s Nicholson Museum, have donated (December 2014 – December 2015) to the Acropolis Museum a Lego Acropolis model. The model contains more than 120,000 Lego bricks and took about 300 hours to build by Ryan McNaught.
• The Silver Cup designed by Michel Bréal and awarded to the Marathon Winner Spyros Louis at the first Modern Olympic Games (1896), displayed at the Acropolis Museum. The Cup remained to the Acropolis Museum until the completion of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, where it is now exhibited.
• Hermitage Museum, have donated (March 2016 – October 2016) to the Acropolis Museum, three golden Scythian exhibitions. The three objects were two vessels and a piece of jewelry. These masterpieces of metalworking were crafted by the Greeks at Crimea, that had developed a close relationship with the Scythians.
• On June 2016, Samsung inaugurated a digital classroom at the Acropolis Museum. The digital classroom addressed to students of primary and secondary schools. This digital classroom was the first “classroom” which was set up in a Museum in Greece and the fifth in Europe.
• The US President Barack Obama visited the Acropolis museum during his visit at Athens (November 15–16, 2016).
• On March 24 – October 31, 2017, Documenta 14, the fourteenth edition of the art exhibition documenta takes place at the Acropolis Museum.
• On June 21, 2019, Greece’s Acropolis Museum opened an excavation site underneath its modern building on Friday, allowing visitors for the first time to walk through an ancient Athenian neighbourhood that survived from the Classical era to Byzantine times.