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 ...

The Acropolis of Athens, the rocky hill in the Greek capital that is home to the iconic Parthenon temple, is one of the world’s most visited and well-known archaeological sites – but new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece opens the gates of the long-awaited Acropolis Museum on Saturday, hoping the modern glass and concrete building will help bring back the Classical Parthenon sculptures ...

The Acropolis of Athens, the rocky hill in the Greek capital that is home to the iconic Parthenon temple, is one of the world's most visited and well-known archaeological sites—but new insights ...