Museums in Greece will work longer

In order to attract more visitors during the peak tourist season, Greece increases the opening hours of museums and archaeological sites. Country's Ministry of Culture has published a list of more than 40 museums, which will operate under the new schedule.Among them - the Acropolis in Athens: You can visit it on weekdays from 8:00 to 20:00, Sunday - 15:00. To 20:00 on weekdays will be open excavations of Mycenae - the birthplace of Homer's characters, the palace of Knossos on Crete, is associated with the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, Ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games of antiquity, as well as the ancient theater of Epidaurus and other monuments.Longer work is made possible by museums to attract temporary workers, the lack of which previously did not allow museums to work in full force and even led to the closure of a number of important museums in the winter. But now the Ministry of Culture was able to complement the main museum complex enough workers.Meanwhile, earlier this week, officials banned from the Acropolis of tourists for a few hours earlier because of intense heat, which reached 43 ° C. The authorities agreed with this measure, but the leadership of the Ministry of Culture remain dissatisfied with the fact that the learned of the closure of the Acropolis from a press release unification keepers of archaeological sites.The popularity of museums in Greece, together with an increase in tourist traffic from year to year increases. In 2011 the country had 11,356,422 tourists, which is 8.93% higher than a year earlier. In the archaeological complexes visited by 17% more tourists, and the total number of visitors to museums, according to the first 10 months of last year, increased by 5%.