The Acropolis Museum Winter Exhibition

The Acropolis Museum Winter Exhibition is a temporary exhibition held at the Acropolis Museum in Athens each late January through the first week of March. The museum was designed by Bernard Tschumi with Michael Photiadis and opened in 2009 at Makryianni, below the Acropolis hill. Its permanent holdings include the surviving Periclean sculpture from the Acropolis: five of the six original Erechtheion porch maidens (the Caryatids) displayed under natural light, the Archaic galleries with the kouroi and early sixth-century votive figures, and the third-floor Parthenon Gallery with the surviving frieze fragments hung against the Acropolis as visible reference through the glass walls. The temporary exhibition space occupies the ground level.

The 2026 winter exhibition draws on the conservation programme of the YSMA (Acropolis Restoration Service), which has operated continuously on the Acropolis since 1975. The temporary show documents the conservators’ work over the preceding two years on the Erechtheion and the Propylaia. The exhibition runs through the first week of March 2026 and is accompanied by a catalogue and curators’ walking tours on Saturday mornings.

The museum opens at 09:00 and closes at 17:00 in winter (last admission 16:30), closed on Tuesdays. The Friday late opening runs until 20:00.