September 1, 2009
Half a million people visit New Acropolis Museum in first two months of opening
The amount of people visiting the New Acropolis Museum in its first month of opening has continued for its second month, giving a total of half a million visitors in the first two months.
From:
Kathimerini (English Edition)
Friday August 28, 2009
In Brief
ACROPOLIS MUSEUMOver 500,000 people visited new building in last two months
More than half a million people have visited the Acropolis Museum since it opened to the public just over two months ago, the museum’s management said yesterday. More specifically, a total of 523,540 visitors have viewed the museum’s exhibits since June 20. Of these, 60 percent are foreign visitors, museum officials said. During the same two-month period, 409,000 hits by different users from 180 countries were recorded by the museum’s website, http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr.
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