The Acropolis Museum was awarded the Acropolis Museum with the "Keck Award 2012", on Friday 14 September 2012, From International Institute for Conservation (IIC) in Vienna.

The Acropolis Museum was awarded the Acropolis Museum with the "Keck Award 2012", on Friday 14 September 2012, From International Institute for Conservation (IIC) in Vienna. The award applies to the Museum for the maintenance and restoration of the Karyatides of the southern Erechtheion using laser technology. The peculiarity of this award lies in the success of the Acropolis Museum to bring visitors into direct contact with procedures that have been done in inaccessible laboratories so far.
Since December of 2010, more than 2 Millions of visitors watched the maintenance of conservationists, thus participating in a historical museum process. The Keck Award was adopted by IIC the 1994, Following the initiative of the couple Sheldon and Caroline Keck, pioneers in the maintenance of artworks, and awarded every two years.

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