25 March: the Acropolis Museum is free (and only that)

🗿 Until the free day at the Acropolis Museum

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On 25 March only the Acropolis Museum is free, all day.

On 25 March, the national holiday, the Acropolis Museum opens for free to everyone, all day. But note: it's the only thing free that day. The Acropolis rock and the state museums are not free, and the National Archaeological Museum is closed. The next 25 March is Thursday 25 March 2027. In the morning there is the big parade at Syntagma.

✅ Free on this day

The Acropolis Museum, all day

❌ Not free

The Acropolis rock and the other archaeological sites
The state museums; the National Archaeological Museum is closed that day
Private museums

What you'll see in the Acropolis Museum

The museum stands at the foot of the rock, on Dionysiou Areopagitou, and holds only finds from the Acropolis and its slopes. As you walk in, you cross a glass floor that reveals an excavation with houses and streets of the ancient city. The first floor has the Archaic statues and the five original Caryatids of the Erechtheion. On the top floor, in the Parthenon Gallery, the temple's frieze is set out in sequence, with the Parthenon itself visible through the windows.

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The original Caryatids in a bright hall of the Acropolis Museum, with visitors — The Caryatids
The five originals; the sixth is in the British Museum.

The hall of Archaic statues, tall columns and visitors among the sculptures — The Archaic gallery
Korai and kouroi, many with traces of their ancient colours.

Visitors on the museum's glass floor, with display cases of pottery below — On the glass
The floor lets you see what lies underneath.

A walkway with railings between ancient foundations under the museum building — The excavation
Houses and streets of ancient Athens beneath the museum.

Photos: Sings83 (CC BY 4.0), miketnorton (CC BY 2.0), Tilemahos Efthimiadis (CC BY-SA 2.0), Pinterpandai.com (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikimedia Commons.

How to get there

Ioulianou 50 → Victoria station: 3 minutes on foot.
Line 1 (green): towards Piraeus, one stop to Omonia.
Line 2 (red): towards Elliniko, three stops to Akropoli station.
Akropoli station → Acropolis Museum: come out on Dionysiou Areopagitou; the museum is on your left, 2 minutes away.

About 20 minutes in total. On the morning of 25 March streets in the centre close for the parade, so take the metro, not a taxi.

🗿 From Ioulianou 50 to the Acropolis Museum

Line 1 to Omonia, Line 2 to Akropoli station. Tap the museum for the route in Google Maps.

Ioulianou 50 Line 1 Line 2 Acropolis Museum

Kathy's tip: watch the parade at Syntagma in the morning, then take Line 2 one stop to Akropoli. At midday the museum is quieter, when most people have gone for lunch. On the top floor, look out of the windows: the Parthenon is right opposite you.

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