Edgar Degas Sculptures at the Heraklidon Museum
THE COMPLETE SCULPTURES OF EDGAR DEGAS
from November 27, 2009 until April 25, 2010
The Herakleidon Museum announces the opening of the exhibition “The Complete Sculptures of Edgar Degas”, which will be on show from November 27th 2009 until April 25th 2010. The exhibition presents all seventy-four bronze sculptures of Edgar Degas including his most important one [...]
A visit to the New Acropolis Museum
Located in the shadow of the Parthenon, just off of the beautiful pedestrian zone that begins near Vasilias Olgas and winds its way past the peaceful downtown neighborhood of Makrigianni, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece official opened in June 2009. Although we’d visited the museum several times since the building first opened, [...]
The New Acropolis Museum Opened in June 2009
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The National Archeological Museum of Athens for techies (and bored teens)
So you are off to Athens, where, along with visiting the ancient sites, you’ll probably spend some time exploring the National Archeological Museum. It has quite a large collection, and while most visitors only spend an hour or so viewing the highlights and your traveling teens may roll their eyes at yet another museum and [...]
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 [...]