“The idea of a new Acropolis Museum started ... But the new museum opened last fall is a showcase for classical Greek art — and, the Greeks say, the perfect place to display London’s Elgin ...

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 top-floor Parthenon Gallery offers a 360-degree panoramic view of the Acropolis ... Museum is deliberately non-monumental, focusing the visitor’s attention on extraordinary works of art.

"This new state of the art Acropolis Museum now demolishes that excuse," said Culture Minister Antonis Samaras, who on Friday described the sculptures widely known as the Parthenon, or Elgin ...

The museum pays tribute to all ages of the Acropolis, with pre-Classical art works given prominence on the second floor, before reaching the Parthenon marbles. Below it, visitors walk over ...

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.

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 ...