The Benaki Museum in Athens celebrates both the International Museum Day & 35 years of creativity. Thus, calls the visitors on a unique experience to the most sanctuary parts of the Museum. The celebration will last the whole weekend.

The renovated Acropolis Museum celebrates the Day by free admission to all. The doors open at 8:00 until late at night. The Museum will present various programmes both for children and adults. All the visitors will a acquaint for-free a commemorative medal. This year’s medal displays a fighting rooster; the impetuous and persistent rooster was the competitive prototype for athletes and fighters in ancient Athens. The Museum archaeologists will give 20-minute talks about the rooster both in Greek and in English. At 21:00 pm The Orchestra of the Center of Arts and Cultures of Dion will perform songs by great composers from the rich repertoire of traditional and Greek art music.

Musical performances will take place at the National and Archaeological Museum. The City of Athens Symphony Orchestra will perform while visitors can enjoy the mosaic exhibition of Daphni Angelidou.

Finally, the Byzantine and Christian Museum organises a guided tour to the permanent collections of the Museum. The Museum will conduct a series of educational activities, which are free for children on Sunday.