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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 state-of-the-art Acropolis Museum in Athens was designed to host all of the Acropolis sculptures together in one complete exhibition and in direct view of the actual monument. Image: the Acropolis of Athens in 1851. You can see a Photo chronicle of the Acropolis in the dedicated AcropolisofAthens.gr gallery.
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 early history of the Acropolis. To the left of the broad staircase leading from the ground floor to the first floor are finds linked to the Acropolis’ distant past. These are objects that mark the Rock’s evolution from a citadel and seat of the local ruler to a sacred place dedicated to the worship of Athena and other gods.
7 Αυγ 2023 · The beginnings of the museum date back to 1863, when it was first decided to build an Acropolis Museum south-east of the Parthenon. Two years later, construction work began on an 800 m² museum, which, however, quickly proved insufficient to exhibit the numerous finds.
1 Ιουλ 2024 · In the first 11 months of its operation alone, the number of tickets sold at this new Athens destination matched those sold in 2023, the greatest year so far in the history of Greek tourism. This wasn’t just a museum; it was a tourism whirlwind.
