The e-ticket is soon to be introduced to archaeological sites and museums, announced recently the new leadership of the Culture Ministry’s Archaeological Resources and Expropriations Fund. The electronic ticket will initially allow access to the popular-seven archaeological sites surrounding the Acropolis (Ancient Agora, Roman Agora, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Keramikos, Theater of Dionysus and Hadrian’s Library) and it is set to launch in mid-June. The program will later include yet 13 sites throughout the country among which Knossos, Lindos, Delphi, Olympia, Mycenae and Epidavros, while it is expected to be fully operational by March 2016 covering all archaeological sites and museums in Greece. Deputy Culture Minister Nikos Xydakis noted however that admission fees to museums and archaeological sites will increase, but there is free access days planned throughout the year, while social groups entitled to discounts are not to lose that privilege. Entrance fees to Greece’s archaeological site “are the cheapest in Europe”, the Deputy Minister said. “This depreciates the value of the offered good”, he added.
Christos Kalloniatis (Professor of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean), Iris Kritikou (Archaeologist-Historian of Art), Konstantinos Maniatopoulos (Director of the Stratis Eleftheriadis-Tériade Museum – Library, Visual Artist-Historian of Art), Irine Vasilopoulou