The restoration works that started on the Acropolis in 2017 and were funded by the OP Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation 2014-2020 (EPANEK), will have been completed within the agreed time schedule by June 2023, despite the problems caused by covid-19.…
This application presents the Parthenon frieze, the continuous relief band running along the top part of the main temple. Τhe subject of the frieze was the Panathenaic procession in honour of the goddess Athena. The application is addressed to scholars…
The first part of the results of the current research regarding the Acropolis monuments’ polychromy is presented in the scientific study of Dr. E. Aggelakopoulou, head of the Conservation Department of the Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) and Associate Professor of…
In the autumn of 2020, the construction of new walkways on the Acropolis for people with mobility impairments was completed. The elaboration of the study was preceded and it was approved by the authorized councils and services of the Ministry…
The Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments (ESMA) was formed in 1975; it is an interdisciplinary committee, set up by the Ministry of Culture, which is responsible for designing and supervising the contemporary conservation and restoration interventions in…
Deadline extention for submiting photos in the action: The Acropolis: Focusing on the restoration #45YEARSESMA #45YEARSWORKS until the 20th of November 2020 How do visitors perceive the restoration works at the Acropolis monuments? This is the question posed by the…
Open call to participate in the photographic action entitled: The Acropolis: Focusing on the restoration #45YEARSESMA #45YEARSWORKS Duration of entries: 9/9/2020-20/10/2020 The Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments (ESMA), an interdisciplinary committee of the Ministry of Culture responsible…
In the near future YSMA will call for the selection of a contractor, in order to remove the base of the construction crane, which in 2010 was moved to the west side of the Parthenon from the north side, where…
The Acropolis Museum, the Acropolis Conservation Committee (ESMA), the Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) and the Acropolis Friends (EFA) organize an event titled “Charalambos Bouras and the Acropolis”. The event is dedicated to the memory of the academic teacher who, as…
On Friday 27th July 2018 two years will have passed since the loss of the academic teacher and chairman of the Committee for the Restoration of the Acropolis Monuments (ESMA), Charalambos Bouras. The Acropolis Restoration Service (YSMA) and the Committee…
The Acropolis Restoration Service has been awarded a special Honorary Distinction on Educational Software for its online educational applications. Skywalker.gr made the Award during the Education Festival 2017 on Friday, September 8, 2017. The Education Festival is organized for the second time this year…
In the presence of the General Secretary of Ministry of Culture Dr. Maria Andreadaki-Blazaki and the President of the Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments (ESMA), academic M. Korres, the central orthostate of the tympanum of the Parthenon’s…
Manolis Korres The measure of contribution of Ch. Bouras’s scientific, educational and social work. A quick glance to his beginning in the sixties (1) And an ampler view of his 2010-2015 scientific output (2). (1) The unusually short time of…
On Wednesday, November 4, 2015, Mr Pierre Moskovisi, the Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs of the EU, visited the Acropolis of Athens in the company of Mr George Stathakis, Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism, and Mr Aristides Baltas,…
The Committee for the Preservation of Monuments Acropolis and the Acropolis Restoration Service invite you to explore the Acropolis monuments and learn about the restoration interventions using the upgraded virtual tour web application that allows the interactive investigation of the archaeological site. By…