Acropolis and Money

The Acropolis, as the emblematic monument of Hellenism and a universal symbol of values, spiritual exultation and – above all – democracy and freedom of expression, operates on a semantic level in the representations on banknotes issued by the Modern Greek State. 

The Parthenon, the largest and most prominent building on the Acropolis, has been commanding admiration for centuries across the world. 

The temporary exhibition “Acropolis & Money” examines the reasons why the Modern Greek State’s banknotes draw themes from the imagery of Acropolis, as well as the way in which these images turn banknotes into ambassadors and carriers of the Hellenic identity and expressers of the individual and collective memory of (not only) Greek society.