The Athens-based museum launched self-guided digital tours to facilitate easier and safer access to its permanent collections amid the global pandemic.

Visitors may access the digital tours by scanning a QR code that can be found at the entrance of the museum as well as outside the exhibition halls on each of its four floors.

The QR code allows visitors to download the free Clio Muse mobile app, which provides information on the fascinating artifacts hosted in the museum.

The museum decided to offer a digital tour reflects in order to avoid the risk of contagion and to offer visitors the safest possible experience in these times of Covid-19. Each visitor now has their own “personal guide” in place of the devices provided by the museum.

These digital tours also benefit visitors unable to physically travel to the museum for the time being due to the pandemic.

The tours are available in Greek, English and French.

Additionally, the museum has created two new thematic tours titled “Wine: The Gift of Dionysus” and “The Enigma of Keros: Myth or Reality?” The first examines the role of wine in antiquity and the second focuses on the uninhabited Cycladic island of Keros and its importance in Greece in the 3rd millennium BC.

Thanks to this development, the museum can carry on promoting the ancient cultures of the Aegean and Cyprus from both close up and remotely.