Join the Acropolis Museum’s archaeologists on a free guided tour in the exhibition Allspice | Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures where the multifaceted work of internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Michael Rakowitz interacts with ancient artefacts from the Middle East and southeastern Mediterranean.

Follow the tour and discover an exhibition that underscores enduring themes of cultural heritage, loss and restitution, survival, and the ongoing creation of culture through conceptual, moving, intensely political and undeniably timely works.

Set in the Acropolis Museum’s Temporary Exhibition Gallery – where the absence of the Parthenon sculptures is acknowledged – the exhibition unfolds a story of colonialism and the looting of cultural institutions, as viewed through Rakowitz’s lens. The artist addresses a persistent global and still unresolved cultural trauma: the displacement of objects that embody the memory and identity of a people, transforming them into artefacts in exile; as well as products of looting, theft, transaction, destruction and disappearance.