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Acropolis Museum



Acropolis Museum, Athens, one of the popular tourist attractions, is located on the sacred rock that is situated at the east of the Parthenon. If you are interested in the history of Athens, you can go to explore the Acropolis Museum, Athens which is one of the most significant museums in the world. This museum shows several exhibitions that include holy sculptures from the Athena Polias temple on the Acropolis. The exhibitions also include architectural sculptures of archaic buildings, metopes, parts of the pediments and wall painting of the Parthenon. The sculptures from the temple of Athena Nike and the Caryatids from the Erechtheion are also exhibited in Acropolis Museum, Athens.

Acropolis Museum, Athens holds some masterworks of the ancient Greek society that is devoted to the salient Athenian sanctuaries. You can also see the "temenos" of Athena Parthenos. Several exclusive artworks that decorate the Acropolis was stolen and believed to be transferred abroad.

Acropolis Museum, Athens was decorated by the famous architect Panages Kalkos and built in between 1865 and 1874. In the 1950's, Acropolis Museum, Athens was expanded towards the east and the demonstration was set up by the archaeologist I Meliades. The museum comprises only the stone carvings from the monuments of the Acropolis and from the digs on the same site. From the starting of the excavations, the vases and the bronzes are kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens and its inscriptions are contained in the Epigraphical Museum.

You can see various collections in the Acropolis Museum, Athens. The collections include Sculptural contributions of the Archaic period, gables of temples dating back to Archaic period. The Archaic Horsemen and sculptures of the "Severe" manner are shown in this museum. Pediments and metopes from the Parthenon and The Parthenon frieze are portrayed herein. You can also see the Erechtheion frieze, Parapets of the Athena Nike temple, Frieze of the Athena Nike temple and the Caryatids.


Tourist Attractions In Athens
Acropolis Museum Arch of Hadrian
Bouleuterion Constitution Square (Syntagma)
Kolonaki Monastiraki
National Archeological Museum of Athens
Omonia Square
Parthenon (Parthenonas) Pireos and Ermou Street
Plaka Psiri
Roman Agora and Tower of the Wind Syntagma Square
The Ancient Agora Theatre of Herodes Atticus
The Attalos stoa Museum The Lycabetous Hill
The Temple of Olympian Zeus Gazi
Kaisariani Monastery




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