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ACROPOLIS MUSEUM

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Rue Dionysiou Areopagitou, Athens, Greece
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2024
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2024

Museum with a café-restaurant with terrace presenting exhibitions of the antiquities of the Acropolis.

A first architectural competition was launched in 1976. Ten years later, Melina Mercouri relaunched the project as part of her campaign to provide a fitting setting for the Parthenon friezes in Greece. While British ambassador to Istanbul, Lord Elgin (1766-1841) had snatched some of the Parthenon's finest treasures, still on display to this day at the British Museum, which has "custody" of them and is still opposed to their return. Designed by Franco-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi, the new Acropolis Museum opened in June 2009.

This gigantic structure of glass, steel and concrete is in direct visual contact with the sacred rock. Its bay windows cleverly reflect the Acropolis, visible almost throughout the visit. As soon as visitors arrive, they discover the city's archaeological remains on stilts and in the basement. The collections are then organized into five themes: the slopes of the Acropolis, the Archaic Acropolis, the Parthenon, the monuments of the Classical Acropolis and the "other collections". Everywhere, the building makes the most of natural light to showcase its 4,000 exhibits.

On the first floor, visitors can admire antiquities from the Acropolis and remains from ancient Athens, attesting to occupation of the area around 3000 BC. The second floor features objects from the Archaic period and the period following the construction of the Parthenon, including two lionesses pulling the god Taurus and a statue depicting "Triton and the three-bodied monster".

On the second floor, a multimedia center broadcasts documentaries. The large terrace overlooking the Acropolis, which houses a pleasant, shaded café-restaurant, is also accessible without a ticket and without queuing.

On the third floor, the tour ends with a grand finale in the Parthenon Hall, designed to recreate the dimensions and orientation of the Parthenon. It features the famous frieze, or at least what remains of it in Greece. Originally, this masterly sculptural composition included 378 figures, both human and divine, and over 200 animals (mainly horses). In "reconstituting" the Parthenon frieze puzzle, the Acropolis Museum elegantly reminds us that only a third of the remains found are on display here. Indeed, the remaining two-thirds, soberly stamped "BM", are a reminder that the bulk is still held by the British Museum in London. With the construction of this sumptuous museum, the Greeks hope one day to recover their friezes.

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nownie
Visited in may 2019
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Bel espace
Très bel espace où nombreuses sont les pièces exposées dont de fameuses copies des pièces éparpillées en Europe. Très moderne tout en étant accueillant avec une superbe terrasse.
Visited in september 2018
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Magnifique musée, en plus du musée archéologique, il faut prendre un peu de temps et visiter ce musée au pied de l'Acropole.
Il possède une une infinité de sculptures et de pièces classiques ayant appartenu à l'Acropole ou encore divers fragments de quelques bâtiments tels que les Propylées, le Temple d'Athéna Niké et l'Érechthéion.
Les autres pièces les plus admirées du musée sont les Caryatides, qui les originaux.
fute_297693
Visited in august 2018
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Très beau musée complet mais les photos ne sont pas autorisées dommage. Je recommande tout de même cet endroit.
fute_314623
Visited in december 2017
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Magnifique musée, avec une vue en panorama sur l'acropole, un design original et moderne, à deux pas de la station de métro : acropolis station, au pied de la vieille ville. Il est à visiter sans hésitation et il faut aller boire un verre sur la terrasse du haut !
cammmz
Visited in april 2018
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Très grand musée moderne qui retrace l'histoire de l'Acropole avec de nombreuses statues, des objets et des pierres provenant du site sur 3 étages.
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