Restoration plan for Heracleion museum to be discussed
Τα Νέα, 25-05-2011
The long-awaited plan for restoration of the Archaeological Museum of Heracleion, Crete, Greece is to be discussed today at the Council of Museums. The globally important museum – due to the largest collection of Minoan artifacts in the world – remains closed since November 2006. From then on, only 400 of its artifacts are visible forming a cluster exhibition in a place originally made as a garage. When open, the museum was one of the most popular in Greece, bearing around 246.000 visitors per year. Although today’s discussion is a big step to the future, the date the museum is due to open again remains unknown.
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