Acropolis Museum
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| Established | 1865 |
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| Location | Athens, Greece |
| Type | Archaeological |
| Website | No official website yet |
The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum located in Athens, Greece on the archeological site of Acropolis. It is considered one of the major archaeological museums in Athens and ranks among the most important museums of the world. Due to its limited size, the Greek Government decided in the late 1980s to build a new museum. The New Acropolis Museum is now being built at the base of the Acropolis. In June 2007 the old museum closed its doors so that its antiquities could be moved to their new home. The new museum is expected to open in 2008 [1].
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[edit] History
The museum is home to many of the Greek world's ancient relics found in and around the Acropolis site since excavations started. It was designed by the Greek architect Panages Kalkos and was constructed between 1865 and 1874. It was expanded in the 50's in a modern design executed by Patroklos Karantinos, a renowned Greek architect [2]. The Acropolis Museum housed stone sculptures and bronze remains [3] from the monuments of the Acropolis and some artifacts that are excavated on the site. It is located in the south-east corner of the Acropolis.
[edit] Collections
The museum housed artifacts that were found on the site of the Acropolis of Athens. They derive mainly from the Parthenon, Propylae, Erechtheum, Temple of Athena Nike, Eleusinion, Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia or Brauroneion, Chalkotheke, Pandroseion, the Old Temple of Athena, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the sanctuary of Asclepius or Asclepieion, Theatre of Dionysus, the odeon of Pericles and the Temenos of Dionysus [4].
[edit] Highlights
- Parthenon Frieze
- Kritios Boy
- Caryatids
- Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis
- Kriophoros
- Kouros and Kore
- Athena Nike Adjusting Her Sandal
- Temple of Athena Nike frieze
- Metopes of the Parthenon
[edit] See also
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Greece packs up ancient statues for new Acropolis museum - International Herald Tribune
- ^ The Acropolis Museum: A Descriptive Catalogue Brouskari M.S.(1974) Commercial Bank of Greece
- ^ The Bronze Fragments of the Acropolis Bather A.G. The Journal of Hellenic Studies (13), 1892 - 1893, pp. 124-130
- ^ Hellenic Ministry of Culture | Acropolis of Athens
