Acropolis Museum
Glass-and-concrete museum below the Acropolis holding the sculpture found on the sacred rock.
The Acropolis Museum opened in June 2009 about three hundred metres south-east of the Acropolis, replacing a small nineteenth-century museum on the rock itself. It gathers more than four thousand objects excavated on the Acropolis and its slopes, arranged so that visitors climb through time as they climb through the building. The ground floor traces finds from the sanctuaries and houses of the slopes, the first floor presents Archaic votive sculpture, and the top floor is given over to the Parthenon frieze, metopes and pediments.
Bernard Tschumi designed the building with the Greek architect Michael Photiadis. It stands on slender pillars above an excavated Athenian neighbourhood of the fourth to seventh centuries AD, which is visible through glass floors and can be walked through. The rectangular top gallery is rotated to align exactly with the Parthenon, so the marbles are shown at their original spacing and in natural light, with the temple itself framed in the surrounding glass walls. Casts stand in for the sculptures held in London.
Highlights
- Parthenon Gallery aligned with the temple and lit by daylight
- Five original Caryatids from the Erechtheion porch
- Glass floors above an excavated late-antique Athenian quarter
- Archaic Gallery of painted korai and the Moschophoros
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