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	Acropolis Museum - Athens Info Guide
		The Acropolis Museum is considered to be one of the most important museums in the world.
		The Acropolis Museum exhibits sculpted votive objects and pediments of the Archaic period, sculptures of the Severe style period, fragments of the Parthenon pediments, metopes and frieze, parts of the Erechteion frieze and the parapets and frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike.
		The fifth room of the Acropolis museum is dominated by the bigger than life-size marble figures from the eastern pediment of the ancient Temple of Athena.
	www.athensinfoguide.com /wtsmuseums/acropolismuseum.htm (1760 words)

	The Acropolis
		The rocky hill of the Acropolis ("topmost part of the city") rises to 156 meters in the middle of the Attica basin.
		The monuments on the western slope of the Acropolis - the Propylaea, the marble pedestal of Agrippa and the small temple of Athena Nike - are visible.
		The Acropolis, the hill of Philopappos, Piraeus and the Saronic Gulf as seen from Lycabettus Hill at dusk.
	www.grisel.net /acropolis.htm (1758 words)

	Acropolis Museum is Back on Track
		The museum was originally envisioned 14 years ago to replace its decaying nineteenth-century predecessor, which holds archaeological materials from the Acropolis, including works from the Parthenon.
		The new Acropolis Museum, a three-story glass structure mounted on pillars, is intended not only as an upgrade but also as an enticement.
		While elements of the Parthenon now sit in ten museums in eight countries, the majority of those not in Athens, known as the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles, are in the British Museum in London.
	www.archaeology.org /0407/newsbriefs/acropolis.html (859 words)

	The Acropolis Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Preparations for the erection of the New Acropolis Museum have already begun.
		In the 1950's it was extended towards the east and the exhibition was rearranged by the archaeologist I. Meliades.
		Since the beginning of the excavations, the vases and the bronzes have been kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, while the inscriptions are housed in the Epigraphical Museum.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21101m/e211am01.html (508 words)

	The Acropolis of Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		During Perikles' Golden Age, ancient Greek civilization was represented in an ideal way on the hill and some of the architectural masterpieces of the period were erected on its ground.
		The monuments on the Acropolis reflect the successive phases of the city's history.
		The monumental gateway of the Acropolis was designed by the architect Mnesikles and constructed in 437-432 B.C. It comprises a central building and two lateral wings.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21101a/e211aa01.html (906 words)

	Acropolis Museum - Dilos Holiday World
		If you visit the Museum prior to your walk around the site you will be able to better understand the history and function of the Acropolis, as the most important religious center of the city of Athens.
		The Acropolis Museum was built on the hill of Acropolis in 1874, before the major excavations by P Kavvadias and G Kawerau, which lasted from 1885 until 1891.
		Clay pottery figurines from the sanctuary of the Nymph on the south slope of the Acropolis (6th - 5th c BC).
	www.dilos.com /location/10216 (740 words)

	The Acropolis \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Athens \| Frommers.com
		The Acropolis is one of a handful of places in the world that is so well known, you may be anxious when you finally get here.
		What you may not know is that people lived on the Acropolis as early as 5,000 B.C. The Acropolis's sheer sides made it a superb natural defense, just the place to avoid enemies and to be able to see invaders coming across the sea or the plains of Attica.
		When you peer over the sides of the Acropolis at the houses in the Plaka, and the remains of the Ancient Agora and the theater of Dionysos, you'll see the layout of the ancient city.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/athens/A6087.html (1888 words)

	Acropolis Museum
		The Acropolis museum is one of the major archaeological institutions of Greece.
		The museum was built to house the rich archaeological finds that have been unearthed during excavations on top and around the Acropolis which, during its long history was decorated with art from a multitudes of eras.
		The evolution of ancient Greek art as a beacon for the subsequent artists of all ages is clearly outlined in the Acropolis museum where one can observe the morphing of the enigmatic smiles to a severe austere gaze of the kore, and the transformation of stiff geometric forms to fluid anatomical features.
	www.greeklandscapes.com /greece/acropolis-museum (950 words)

	Columbia News ::: Architecture Dean Bernard Tschumi Designs New Acropolis Museum in Athens
		Set only 800 feet from the legendary Parthenon, the museum will be the most significant building ever erected so close to the ancient temple and was commissioned by the Greek government to be completed in time for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens.
		Several decades later, a decision was made by Pericles to build a new temple atop the Acropolis -- the highest point in Athens -- that would glorify both the goddess Athena and the Greek capital, which had become the state's largest and wealthiest center.
		Thus, most of the top floor of Tschumi's new museum will be devoted to space anticipating the return of the treasures Elgin took, many which date back to the Parthenon's earliest days.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/02/04/tschumi_nam.html (1101 words)

	THE NEW ACROPOLIS MUSEUM IN ATHENS
		The New Museum is not only a venue for the display of the Acropolis masterpieces: the exibits offer stimuli to the visitor in order that he or she may learn about, study, participate in or simply enjoy these works or art.
		The decisive factor in the choice of site for the New Acropolis Museum was the conviction that the building should be situated in an area close to the Acropolis itself and to the Centre for Acropolis Studies in order that the inseparable bond linking the ancient objects with the Classical monuments should be maintained.
		The Centre for Acropolis Studies is incorporated into the workings of the Museum.The exhibition areas for works of art from the ancient period constitute an integral unity.
	home.swipnet.se /octavian_ciupitu/acropol2.html (655 words)

	Travels in Greece: The Acropolis Museum
		The museum interior is largely illuminated by natural light through the liberal use of glass block construction.
		The museum entrance is approached by a pair of opposing staircases, which meet at the front entrance by a pedestal supporting a sculpture of a stylized owl, sacred to the goddess Athena.
		This is one of the original Caryatids, rescued from th eoutside environment an put in the museum for safekeeping.
	www.theotherpages.org /greece/index5.html (627 words)

	Athens Museums::Acropolis Museum - Culture Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Acropolis Museum can be found at a discrete distance from the main monuments and houses most of the friezes and sculptures that had been excavated from the temple ruins since 1834.
		In the first rooms of the museums sculpture fragments from the pediment of the old Temple of Athena can be found.
		The museum also houses the Moschophoros, a painted marble statue of a young man carrying a calf, which is the first marble sculpture in Greek art.
	www.culturetravelguide.com /cities/athens/museums.htm (206 words)

	Acropolis Museum delayed Art in America - Find Articles
		Construction of the museum has been seriously delayed by legal actions taken by nearby residents and others who claim that work on the site would destroy ancient artifacts and structures not yet uncovered.
		Making matters worse, a lawsuit was filed in March charging nearly all the former officials involved in the $115-million project, as well as the judges who chose the plan and Tschumi himself, with breach of duty for having approved the project.
		News of the museum's delay was an embarrassing blow to the country, which is also struggling to complete construction on major Olympic infrastructure and venues, some of which are seriously over budget.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_6_92/ai_n6080457 (399 words)

	The Acropolis Museum « Elginism
		Not long before this ambitious plan becomes an accomplished fact, the Organization for the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum shows a little something of what we’ll see and presents a model of the Museum, along with 34 original works, which are going to be accommodated in it.
		The New Museum of the Acropolis is expected to become one of the most important museums in Europe.
		The sculptures come from the already existing museum on the Acropolis -the one that will be replace by the new one- and the brass exhibitis from the National Archaeological Museum.
	www.elginism.com /20041129/54 (652 words)

	Athen Greece-Acropolis Parthenon - Akropolis in fullscreen QTVR
		The Acropolis in Athens is one of the worlds most important architectural, historic and cultural treasures.
		Built on the Acropolis hill, the "Sacred Rock" of Athens, it dominates the city of Athen.
		Greece wants their cultural heritage back but the British Museum has consistently refused and even if British government officials support the return of the Marbles to Greece, they claim that Greece is not capable to care for them and display them in a proper way.
	www.panoramas.dk /fullscreen3/f42_acropolis.html (410 words)

	Acropolis Museum, Athens
		The Acropolis Museum, containing one of the most valuable collections of Greek art in existence, was built in 1949-53 at the southeast corner of the Acropolis, lying so low that it does not obtrude.
		Acropolis Museum in Athens houses four of the original Caryatids.
		Detail of pediment from earliest Parthenon features three bearded males which are snakes from waist down, holding fire, water, and bird, dates from the 6th century BC in Acropolis Museum, Athens.
	www.planetware.com /athens/acropolis-museum-gr-ath-acmus.htm (177 words)

	Acropolis Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum located in Athens, Greece.
		The museum is home to many of the Greek worlds ancient relics found on and around the Acropolis site since excavations started.
		The Acropolis Museum only houses stone sculptures from the monuments of the Acropolis and some artefacts that are excavated on the site.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acropolis_Museum (205 words)

	Towards a new Acropolis Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The small museum on the rock of the Acropolis was the first museum to be built in modern Athens: though twice expanded, however, it has proved totally inadequate and inappropriate as regards to its location so close to the Parthenon.
		The necessity of building a new museum became pressing in the light of new approaches in museum design and policy, and particularly following the extensive preservation works of the Acropolis monuments which have been undertaken in the last twenty-five years.
		A new Acropolis Museum was necessary for the protection and proper exhibition of unique sculptures and artifacts.
	www.greece.org /arts-culture/parthenon/marbles/oanma.htm (510 words)

	A New Home for the Acropolis Treasures
		Given the magnitude of the finds, the museum's design was altered both to limit damage to the ruins and to incorporate them into the overall experience of visitors.
		My favorite, artistically and historically, is a fragmentary marble slab with a horse head in relief (Acropolis Museum 1340), possibly part of the frieze from the old temple of Athena, which was destroyed by the Persians.
		It may be retained as a museum documenting the restoration of the Parthenon and other monuments, or it may be torn down.
	www.archaeology.org /online/reviews/acropseum/index.html (804 words)

	news.ert.gr - Politics - Greek PM Visits the Acropolis Museum
		After inspecting the works done for the new museum, Karamanlis underlined that the new Acropolis Museum will be Greece’s strongest asset for the repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles.
		Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis and President of the Organization for the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum Dimitris Pantermalis escorted the Prime Minister in his visit to the museum.
		Before the representatives of the 192 UN Member-States, South Korean Ban Ki-moon was sworn in as new the eighth UN Secretary General on Thursday.
	news.ert.gr /en/newsDetails.asp?id=21314 (660 words)

	Marbles Reunited - The Campaign Story - The new Acropolis Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Greek government is building a new museum at the foot of Acropolis to hold all the incomparable material found on that venerable site - sculptures, inscriptions, architectural fragments, portable antiquities and more.
		The New Museum of the Acropolis will be one of the most modern, state-of-the-art museums in the world with all that modern technology can provide for the conservation, display and study of the Parthenon Marbles.
		The New Acropolis Museum will provide better facilities for conserving and displaying the reunited Parthenon Sculptures than could ever be provided at the British Museum in London.
	www.marblesreunited.org.uk /campaignstory/acropolismuseum.html (309 words)

	New Acropolis Museum progress « Elginism
		Greece had hoped to open the museum before the 2004 Olympics to push its claim for the return of the 5th-century BC Parthenon marbles, widely known as the Elgin marbles, from the British Museum.
		Because of the risk of earthquakes, the four-storey museum is built on 94 shock absorbing supports to allow it to sway during tremors.
		Greece had said that the new museum will be finished before the 2004 Olympic Games in order to host the Parthenon masterpieces, known as Elgin marbles, which are on display in London’s British Museum, if Greece could successfully ask for their return or temporary borrowing.
	www.elginism.com /20060323/365 (888 words)

	The Acropolis Museum
		The Acropolis Museum (1866-1873) stands in the south eastern corner of the sacred rock and houses finds from excavations on the Acropolis.
		When the victorious Athenians returned shortly afterwards, the ruins were buried with reverence in hollows in the rock where they remained forgotten for centuries, thus avoiding the disasters and thefts which subsequently laid waste the Acropolis.
		Most have been taken abroad, mainly to the British Museum, part of them are still in-situ on the monuments and others are on display in the Acropolis Museum.
	www.grisel.net /acropolis_museum.htm (1346 words)

	The New Acropolis Museum
		The results of the second competition to design the New Acropolis Museum have been announced by the Greek government.
		It is important to keep the museum as close to the Acropolis as possible, but any area near the Acropolis is almost certain to produce important archaeological finds when fully excavated.
		Remarkably, it appears that the Athens correspondent of the Guardian, with whom the story seems to have originated, had not visited the site or even, checked the facts with the Director; nor, equally remarkably, had the Athens-based archaeologists who were the primary sources for the story.
	www.greece.org /parthenon/marbles/museum.htm (881 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Greek museum plans 'thwarted'
		Greece's highest court has ruled against the government's plans on a new museum at the Acropolis in Athens, according to court officials.
		Correspondents say such a ruling is a serious setback for the Greek Government's efforts for the return of the Parthenon frieze known in Britain as the Elgin Marbles, which once adorned the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis, from the British Museum in London.
		Greece had hoped a new modern Acropolis museum would put pressure on Britain to return the sculptures for display during the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3041595.stm (291 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Acropolis museum on sched for 2007 opening: PM
		The new, two-storey venue is scheduled to open to the public by year end, after the country's artifacts are carefully moved out of the existing cramped facility.
		The sprawling glass and concrete museum was originally scheduled to open in time for the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
		British Museum officials have long maintained that Elgin's actions saved the marbles from falling into disrepair, and have refused to give them back because of concerns over how the Greek government has cared for the Parthenon, which they view as irretrievably damaged.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/10/10/museum-acropolis-greece.html (1425 words)

	Prime Minister of Greece tours Acropolis Museum construction site » Greece Travel Blog
		Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis visited the under-construction new Acropolis Museum on Monday morning, accompanied by Culture Minister George Voulgarakis, Organisation for the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum president Dimitris Pantermalis, culture ministry officials and archaeologists.
		The prime minister was given a guided tour of both the old and the new section of the museum, while he also watched the Caryatids’ casts — marble figues of nymphs atop the Acropolis — being put in place.
		The prime minister said that the new museum provides a very powerful argument to Greece in support of the return of the Parthenon Marbles, adding that a very important step is being made toward the realization of a vision shared by all Greeks and all of Greece’s friends around the world.
	www.greecetravelblog.com /blog/?p=87 (478 words)

	rogueclassicism: Acropolis Museum Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But after decades on the drawing board, the museum is now three years behind schedule and, at a projected final cost of 129 million euros ($156.6 million), 25 percent over budget.
		Because of the risk of earthquakes, the four-story museum is built on 94 shock absorbing supports to allow it to sway during tremors.
		Once it is finished, the museum will house artifacts from the temples of the Acropolis, including the Parthenon, as well as serving as a hoped-for future home for the disputed Elgin marbles.
	www.atrium-media.com /rogueclassicism/Posts/00003248.html (354 words)

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