June 13, 2012
The New Acropolis Museum – a self-funded exemplar to other Greek museums
The New Acropolis Museum is unusual for a Greek state owned museum – in that it keeps the money it receives from ticket sales & its shop etc – and uses these funds to entirely finance its running costs, ensuring that it does not at present require any aid from the cash starved Greek state.
You can find out more about this from this video on Bloomberg news.
- New Acropolis Museum to receive EU funding : October 1, 2004
- How the Greek state manages to pay no subsidies to the New Acropolis Museum : May 1, 2012
- EU funding requested for New Acropolis Museum : October 2, 2004
- Electronic ticketing for Greek archaeological sites : November 6, 2012
- New Acropolis Museum visitor figures : June 30, 2009
- E-Ticketing on the Acropolis from June : May 1, 2015
- Lack of funds for museums to make new purchases : May 8, 2006
- Twelve thousand people per day visiting the New Acropolis Museum : July 2, 2009