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The Acropolis Museum (Greek: Μουσείο Ακρόπολης, Mouseio Akropolis) is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on the surrounding slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece .
The new Acropolis Museum was constructed on the south side of the Acropolis at a distance of 300 metres from its monuments. The Museum’s foundations were completed on the 30th of January 2004 and its opening took place on the 20th of June 2009.
The Acropolis Museum was built in large part to house the so-called Elgin Marbles, a collection of ancient Greek sculptures that were removed from the Parthenon in the 19th century by Thomas Bruce, 7th earl of Elgin, who was the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1799–1803).
The state-of-the-art Acropolis Museum in Athens has the capacity to house them all in optimal conditions, in direct view of the monument. In 1801, Elgin, the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, removed sculptures from the buildings of the Acropolis of Athens without permission from the Sultan.
The Acropolis Museum, one of the most important museums in the world, houses the findings of only one archaeological site, the Athenian Acropolis and its slopes. The masterpieces that form its collection offer a comprehensive overview of the character and historical course of the site that became a global landmark of both the ancient and the ...
9 Σεπ 2024 · The Acropolis Museum was founded in 1865 to house the archeological remains from the ancient site. It opened a building on the acropolis in 1874 and in 2009 finished construction of a new, larger building set off from the site.
8 Οκτ 2015 · The opening of the Acropolis Museum at its new premises in the summer of 2009 marked more than the inauguration of an emblematic building to house the Greek capital’s most precious antiquities.
