See About archive blog posts. “The idea of a new Acropolis Museum started more than 30 years ago,” says the president of the institution, Dimitrios Pandermalis. “The first architectural ...

I have been mulling this over while thinking about the significance of the opening of the new Acropolis museum in Athens on Saturday. The structure is Greece's answer to the British argument that ...

The opening of the New Acropolis Museum was one of the most emotional ... The favoured solution of covering copies in scrims created technical difficulties, as the netting would not permit a ...

Fast Facts The old Acropolis Museum was much smaller–it was built into the rock of the Acropolis in 1874 and was only able to house 10% of the artifacts included in this museum. It closed to the ...

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the Acropolis Museum has inaugurated its Excavation Museum. At the heart of this new space, 1,150 everyday objects are displayed alongside the remains of a ...

Housing more than 4,000 works of art, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens will contain the world's most extensive repository of Archaic and Classical Greek sculptures. The $190 million glass-and ...