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The top-floor Parthenon ... the monuments of the Acropolis, so the building that exhibits them is a museum of ambient natural light. The use of various types of glass allows light to flood into ...
The New Acropolis Museum will display some of the remaining original frieze along with plaster replicas of the Elgin Marbles. In a design masterstroke, the glass-enclosed top floor is turned at a ...
U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis ... Another plus: the museum's design. Several visitors raved about the attraction's construction, especially its glass floors that offer ...
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece opens the gates of the long-awaited Acropolis Museum on Saturday, hoping the modern glass and concrete ... its top floor layout mimics the main temple of the Acropolis ...
The New Acropolis ... feet of glass, 150,000 square feet of display space spanning five floors, and 4,000 artifacts. However, perhaps the most important statement made in this museum’s opening ...
Greece's Acropolis Museum ... unearthed during the museum's construction between 1997 and 2004, but were previously only partially visible through the entrance glass floor. Their excavation ...
Greece officially opened its long-awaited new Acropolis Museum Saturday ... And the top-floor Parthenon gallery, made of black glass, is aligned with the Parthenon itself. Marbles integral ...
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the Acropolis Museum has inaugurated its Excavation Museum. At the heart of this new space ... Athens in 480 BC. In the glass gallery, the spiritual life ...
Ambient natural light floods the top-floor Parthenon Gallery and is ... Throughout the New Acropolis Museum, glass, concrete and marble have been used to complement the simplicity of the overall ...
ATHENS, Greece -- About 1,500 years after Christian zealots vandalized the Parthenon's pagan sculptures, Greece's Orthodox Church on Wednesday formally blessed the new Acropolis Museum ...