Greek Acropolis Museum, according to
the votes of tourists, as published by the largest travel website worldwide,
TripAdvisor.
Eighth occupies the Acropolis Museum
estimated visitors of TripAdvisor, which characteristically notes: “The new
building is so amazing with their treasures hosting", commenting on the
glass corridor from which visitors can see the ruins and excavations below
the museum.
The
museum is located about 300 meters
(980 feet) southeast of the Parthenon, in the
historic district Makrygianni. The top floor of the
museum (Parthenon Gallery) offers a 360 degree panoramic view of
the Acropolis and modern Athens. The entrance of the museumin
the pedestrian Dionysiou Areopagitou connects
the museum with the Acropolis and other
important archaeological sites of Athens.
The Acropolis Museum includes unique
masterpieces, mainly original works of archaic and classical Greek art,
directly related to the sacred rock of the Athenian Acropolis. This free votive
sculptures and sets architectural sculptures that decorated the buildings
erected in different historical periods of the Acropolis.
In the exhibition sections include even
votive and reliefs, pottery like vases, statuettes and reliefs as well as other
kinds of miniature bronze votive statuettes and utensils. One of the sculptures of bronze and pottery objects were transferred
from the National Archaeological Museum where kept. The inscribed projects (offerings bases, honorary decrees, lists of
offerings of the goddess Athena, the Erechtheion building inscriptions) were
transferred from the Epigraphic Museum and the currencies ( “treasures") from the Numismatic Museum of Athens. Important is the gap in the Acropolis Museum Parthenon original
sculptures, which are in European museums and university collections (British
Museum, the Louvre, etc.). Acropolis.
The rich collections give visitors a
complete picture of the human presence on the Acropolis, from the prehistoric
period until the Late Antiquity. An integral component of the program is the
presentation of an archaeological excavation at the site of the museum itself. The finds date from the 4th to the 7th century AD, they have
remained intact and protected beneath the museum building, visible from the
first floor level.
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