May has arrived, and the myrtle trees in the garden of the Acropolis Museum have dressed in their finest! Adorned with their white blossoms, they welcome the bees, who work tirelessly to gather pollen and make their delicious honey. Did you know that pollen sticks to their legs and is carried from flower to flower? This is how plants produce new fruits and seeds. Without bees, we would not have an abundance of apples, cherries, strawberries, and so many other fruits. It is no coincidence that people have considered bees precious since ancient times! The ancient Greeks even said that when Zeus was a baby and was being cared for by the Nymphs in a cave on Crete, they fed him milk from the goat Amalthea and honey from the bees. They regarded honey as a divine food that gave them strength! Since they did not have sugar, they made sweets with honey: honey cakes, small pyramids made of honey and sesame seeds, and many more treats. One of their favorite sweet delicacies was the honeycomb itself, which they ate during great festivals such as the Panathenaea. Similar honeycombs are carried on trays by the young tray-bearers depicted on the frieze of the Parthenon. After all, Attica was said to produce excellent honey, and for that reason archaeologists have discovered beehives even in the ancient neighborhood beneath the Acropolis Museum.

Spring is finally here, and the Acropolis Museum is getting ready to welcome you back with two exciting activities! Starting Sunday April 5, the adventure returns to the Museum’s archaeological excavation with the family program Time Travelers: In an Ancient House Beneath the Acropolis. The family of Hipponikos once lived peacefully in one of the houses in this Athenian neighborhood beneath the Acropolis. But what happens when a crack in time suddenly brings them from the past into the present? Οur heroes risk being trapped in today’s world unless they can find their favorite rooms among the ruins of their home as well as their beloved objects displayed in the Museum’s excavation galleries. Can you help them?  As Easter would not be complete without a visit to the Acropolis Museum, we invite you on Orthodox Greek Holy Monday, April 6, from 11:00 to 14:00, to the Museum’s Kids’ Corner for activities full of color and imagination. If you are 3 to 10 years old, come and create your own artworks inspired by the Museum’s exhibits—such as little roosters, bunnies, and eggs—to decorate with them your home or offer them as gifts to your beloved ones. Don’t forget to explore the Museum galleries with the help of our colorful leaflet and Lambros the rooster along with his Easter friends, and discover stories about them from long ago. If you can’t make it to the Acropolis Museum on Holy Monday, you can find all the artworks here to print at home, decorate with colors and lots of imagination, and share them on the Gallery of Acropolis Museum Kids.

This year’s Easter finds us in a creative mood here at the Acropolis Museum - so we’re not exactly ‘sitting on our eggs’! We are calling in roosters, rabbits and eggs from the Museum’s collections as an inspiration for Easter-themed activities! If you’re between the ages of 3 and 10 - or even older but love getting creative - the Kids’ Corner on the Museum’s second floor, full of colors and decorations, awaits you on Holy Monday, April 14, and Holy Tuesday, April 15, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Oh, and don’t forget to follow Lambros – a kind and friendly rooster, who’s excited to introduce you to all his Easter friends! Use the activity leaflets waiting for you on site, to search around the Museum for the exhibits that will keep us company this Easter season. We can’t wait to see you and have fun together!

We are in the midst of the Carnival, so it's likely that you will be taking out of your closets your masks and dress up clothes! Or perhaps you're still undecided about your outfit? The Acropolis Museum has the solution for you! Visit its exhibition areas, get inspired (images 1 and 2) and dazzle everybody as goddess Athena, brave Hercules, or fearsome Medusa. You know, even in ancient times, disguises were a mean for fun and festivities during the celebration in honor of the great god Dionysos. People used to wear masks, animal capes and tails, and hanged out singing like Dionysos' mischievous friends, the Satyrs, the Sileni and the Maenads. Anywhere there was feasting, dancing, joy, pranks, and wine, Dionysos and his companions were bound to be present!  From these festive events we got the tradition of Carnival today and we have a great time every year! Did you know that back then masks weren't used only for fun disguise purposes? In the theater, the actors wore special masks to play their roles, as only men played all the characters in the theatrical perfomances.

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Ένα μυστήριο πλανάται στον αέρα του Μουσείου Ακρόπολης και η λύση του είναι απαραίτητη γιατί τα Παναθήναια, η μεγάλη γιορτή της θεάς Αθηνάς, κινδυνεύουν! Όπως πληροφορηθήκαμε μεγάλη συμφορά βρήκε τους Αθηναίους.  Λίγο πριν ξεκινήσει η πομπή για τη μεταφορά και αφιέρωση του ιερού πέπλου στην αγαπημένη θεά επάνω στην Ακρόπολη, η παράσταση της Γιγαντομαχίας που τον διακοσμεί, ξεθώριασε και δεν φαίνεται τίποτα πια! Είναι μεγάλη ανάγκη να βρεθεί ο ένοχος και να αποκατασταθεί η παράσταση για να ολοκληρωθεί η γιορτή, αλλιώς ο θυμός της θεάς θα πέσει επάνω στους Αθηναίους. Τολμήστε να συμμετέχετε σε αυτή τη φανταστική περιπέτεια, ακολουθήστε τα στοιχεία που αποκαλύπτουν τα εκθέματα του Μουσείου με τη βοήθεια ενός χάρτη και των αρχαιολόγων, λύστε τον μυστικό κώδικα και ανακαλύψετε τον δράστη για να σώσετε τη γιορτή.  Εμπρός μικροί ερευνητές λάβετε δράση!

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