I had lunch with the President, Celebrities in Greece
I’m not really sure where this post belongs, or if it even belongs on my Athens Travel blog, (although perhaps since it highlights such an important cultural difference, it does fit) but it underscored something I have long noticed about Greece and Greeks. Celebrities here have a somewhat different status than in the US, [...]
The New Acropolis Museum Opened in June 2009
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New exhibit at the New Acropolis Museum
The presidents of Greece and Italy officially opened a new exhibit at the New Acropolis Museum today.
The exhibition ‘Νόστοι – Nostoi’ presents 74 pieces that were returned to Italy from various American museums A significant part of the exhibition comprises 10 works that were recently returned to Greece and will be seen by the public [...]
The New Acropolis Museum – The Museum and the Excavation, a special exhibit
Visitors to Athens cannot help but notice the large cranes perched next to the Acropolis, and you’ll be hard pressed for the next several months to capture a photo of the Acropolis without the crane somewhere in your photograph. Fret not about this, instead consider that you are in Athens for a historical moment in [...]
New Acropolis Museum first exhibit opens!
The doors of the long awaited new Acropolis Museum, located at the base of the Acropolis in the Makrigianni neighborhood of Athens, opened today!
Currently only the first floor of the museum, with an exhibition entitled “The Museum and the Excavation” will be accessible to visitors. A short video presentation is online which highlights the construction [...]
The New Acropolis Museum
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Athenian treasures begin journey to their new home
This past weekend in Athens, three cranes began the work of moving antiquities to their new home in the long awaited new Acropolis Museum. The process will take months, but began on Sunday, with crews moving a 2.3-ton section of the Parthenon frieze: a 160-meter-long strip sculpted in relief with some 360 human and 250 [...]