Visit the New Acropolis Museum With Athens Taxi Tours
Acropolis Museum
Athens Taxi proudly incorporates to all sightseeing tours in Athens a visit to the new Acropolis Museum, inaugurated just a few days ago in the city of Athens, just a few meters away from the historical site.
Located on the southern slope that takes you to the Holy Rock of the Acropolis, the New Acropolis Museum is an impressive modern building, the largest museum ever built so close to the actual ancient site.
It is situated 300 meters away from Acropolis and it is a large rectangular building made of glass, steel and concrete, with marble based exterior and a large plaza with glass floors offering a glimpse of an archaeological excavation below, and the remains found during the excavation.
Acropolis Museum gains the hearts of its visitors
The Acropolis Museum covers a total area of 226,000 sq feet and is designed by the accredited architect Bernard Tschumi; it replaces the old museum that was built in 1874 and is located on the Rock, next to the Parthenon. The New Acropolis Museum is the highest profile culture project undertaken in Greece and Europe in general the last years and it already gained the hearts of its visitors from all over the world.
Caryatids from Erechtheion at Acropolis Museum
The Museum features large glass surfaces in order to provide unlimited and panoramic views to the Parthenon from every room and floor.
The new Acropolis museum opened its gates in June 2009 presenting to the world the immense collection of ancient artifacts from the Parthenon and the Acropolis.
Passionately advocated by Melina Mercouri, the dream and vision of all Greeks finally found its place at the new museum, enhancing and backing the demand for the reunion of the Marbles of the Parthenon that are now at the British Museum.
More than 4,000 items in the Acropolis Museum
The New Museum of the Acropolis features more than 4,000 items divided into different collections. The exhibition program spans the history of the Acropolis and its adjacent slopes, from prehistoric times through late antiquity.
The visitors can see today all artifacts and findings, such as the Finds from the slopes of the Acropolis which can be seen due to the glass floors of the museum, or the artifacts from the Archaic Period. The most important parts of the collection are the Caryatids and the balustrade slab from the Athena Nike temple and the marbles and friezes of the Parthenon, the ones still in Greece, complemented by replicas of the metopes and the ones at the British Museum. Fifty meters of the total 160 meters are housed in the Acropolis Museum, and it is the first time in the history that all monuments and sculptures from the Parthenon and Classical Acropolis are put and displayed together.
The Acropolis is the touchstone of the fortunes of Greece and the new museum is here to show the world and its visitors priceless artifacts, in the most proper way to showcase the splendor of the Greek antiquity.
Athens Taxi Tours will drive you to the new Acropolis Museum, as all guided tours in Athens feature a visit to this extraordinary new museum.