ACROPOLIS MUSEUM

The 'Acropolis Museum' is an archaeological museum located in Athens, Greece on the archeological site of Acropolis. It is considered as one of the major archaeological museums in Athens and ranks among the most important museums of the world. Due to te lack of space in the current museum, the Greek Government has decided to build a new museum. A New Acropolis Museum is actually now being built at the base of Acropolis. In June 2007 the old museum has closed down, so that the antiquities can be moved to the new museum. The new museum is expected to open at the start of 2008 ^[1].

Contents

History

Collections

Highlights

See also

External links

Notes

History

The museum is home to many of the Greek world's ancient relics found in and around the Acropolis site since excavations started.
It was designed by the Greek architect Panages Kalkos and it was constructed in the years between 1865 and 1874. It was expanded in the 50's in a modern design executed by Patroklos Karantinos, a renowned Greek architect ^[2].
The Acropolis Museum houses stone sculptures and bronze remains ^[3]
from the monuments of the Acropolis and some artifacts that are excavated on the site. It is located in the south-east corner of the Acropolis.

Collections

The museum houses artifacts that were found on the Acropolis of Athens. Artifacts derive mainly from the Parthenon, Propylae, Erechtheum, Temple of Athena Nike, Eleusinion, Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia or Brauroneion, Chalkotheke, Pandroseion, the Old Temple of Athena, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the sanctuary of Asclepius or Asclepieion, Theatre of Dionysus, the odeon of Pericles and the Temenos of Dionysus ^[4].

Highlights

★ Parthenon Frieze

★ Kritios Boy

★ Caryatids

★ Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis

★ Kriophoros

★ Kouros and Kore

★ Athena Nike Adjusting Her Sandal

★ Temple of Athena Nike frieze

★ Metopes of the Parthenon

See also

★ New Acropolis Museum

★ Acropolis

★ Erechtheum

★ List of museums in Greece

★ Perserschutt

External links

★ Acropolis museum

★ Acropolis Museum: Moschophoros, Kritios Boy

Notes

1. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/12/europe/EU-GEN-Greece-Acropolis-Statues.php
2. 'The Acropolis Museum': A Descriptive Catalogue Brouskari M.S.(1974) Commercial Bank of Greece
3. The Bronze Fragments of the Acropolis
Bather A.G. The Journal of Hellenic Studies (13), 1892 - 1893, pp. 124-130
4. http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh351.jsp?obj_id=2384