Tourist Attraction in Athens:
Acropolis Museum

The Acropolis Museum is a museum in Athens that collects only materials found on the Acropolis. The main core of the collection is the statues and fragments of archaic architectural decoration deprecated by the Persians in the 481 Christophs, adding sculptures of the classical period. The museum is located at the foot of the Acropolis hill, the original museum from the first museum built in the Acropolis in 1863, thirty years after the abandonment of Athens in the last Turkish garrison. Due to the richness of the collections, in 2002 the construction of new and wider premises on the slopes of the Acropolis began. In June 2007, the old office was closed to allow the relocation of the collection to the new, largest and most modern museum venue, designed by Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi, which was opened in June 2009. The new Acropolis Museum hosts a chronological itinerary that presents the evolution of Greek art and, in particular, of sculpture, from archaic times until the Roman rule. The highest floor of the museum houses - in a space constructed in accordance with the real orientation of the Parthenon - all parts of the original friars belonging to the Greek government and copies of those currently on display at the British Museum in London. Continuing along the tour, at the lower level are exposed pieces dating from the classical age to the Roman period.

Attractions in Athens