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 ...

Not any more: Bernard Tschumi, after nearly a decade of wrangling with delays, protesting officials, and an ambivalent public, is set to complete the new Acropolis museum. The building is ...

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 ...

But their remaining days there are numbered. Three hundred marble statues will soon be moved off the Acropolis to a new museum, say Greek officials. The sculptures, weighing up to 2.5 tons each ...

See About archive blog posts. Designed to house treasures from the 5th century B.C. and beyond, the new Acropolis Museum in Greece is choosing to announce its arrival in a 21st century A.D. way.

The new Acropolis Museum in Athens, containing the world’s finest collection of ancient Greek sculpture, opens to the public on Monday. The Greek government hopes its opening will help revive an ...

Initially scheduled for completion before the 2004 Athens Olympics, the new, 215,000-square foot museum was delayed by legal fights and new archaeological discoveries at the site — many of which ...

Greece's Acropolis Museum has opened to the public a new section housing the remains of an ancient Athens neighbourhood to mark its 10-year-anniversary, organisers said Friday. The new 4,000 ...

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 ...

ATHENS | Greek President Karolos Papoulias on Saturday ramped up pressure on Britain to return priceless statues from antiquity taken over 200 years ago as the new Acropolis Museum was opened in ...