The ACROPOLIS MUSEUM (All registered participants will receive a free entrance ticket)
The Acropolis Museum is located in the historical area of Makriyianni, southeast of the Rock of the Acropolis, on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, Athens. It is only 300 meters from the Acropolis and approximately 2 kilometers from Syntagma, Athens main city square. The Museum entrance is located at the beginning of the pedestrian walkway of Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, which constitutes the central route for the unified network of the city’s archaeological sites. The Acropolis station of the Metro is on the east side of the Museum site. Getting there: - By bus: Lines 24, 40, 57, 103, 106, 108, 111, 126, 134, 135, 136, 137, 155, 206, 208, 227, 230, 237, 790, 856, Α2, Α3, Α4, Β2, Β3, Β4, Ε2, Ε22 (Stop: Makryianni) - By trolley: Lines 1, 5, 15 (Stop: Makryianni) - By metro: Line 2 (Aghios Antonios-Aghios Dimitrios), Disembarking Station: Acropolis
- By car: The Museum encourages visitors to use one of the several means of public transportation that serve the Museum (see above) and to avoid using their cars in the historic quarter of Athens. The Museum provides no public parking facilities. Limited street parking is available at the following streets near the Museum: Hatzichristou, Dimitrakopoulou, Veikou, Mitseon, Parthenonos, Karyatidon. Paid parking facilities are available at Rovertou Gali Street and Falirou Street. HOW TO GET TO THE MUSEUM FROM ATHENS IMPERIAL HOTEL:
From the METAXOURGIO METRO STATION opposite the hotel take the red line (LINE 2) with direction Ayios Demetrios and disembark at AKROPOLIS METRO STATION. The Acropolis metro station is on the east side of the Museum site.
On the way back you go to Station “Acropolis” and take the line towards “Agios Antonios”.
THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS (The Opening Ceremony and Plenary place on 28 April, 2011, at 9.30 a.m.)
How to get there:
- By metro: Line 2 (Aghios Antonios-Aghios Dimitrios), Disembarking Station: “Panepistimio”
-HOW TO GET TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS from ATHENS IMPERIAL HOTEL:
From the METAXOURGIO METRO STATION opposite the hotel take the red line (LINE 2) with direction Ayios Demetrios and disembark at PANEPISTIMIO METRO STATION (Metaxourgio Station↔Omonia Station↔Panepistimio Station)
On the way back you go to Station “Akropolis” and take the line towards “Agios Antonios”.
