The New Acropolis Museum
The construction of a new museum to house all the surviving antiquities from the Acropolis has been Greece's objective for over three decades. The existing museum on the Acropolis is too small and because of this many antiquities are displayed or stored in other Athenian museums basements. The limitations of the existing museum, the extrordinary significance of the finds and the effort to reunify all the existing pieces of the Parthenon make the construction of the new museum an imperative.
Today a new Acropolis Museum providing over 14,000 sq, meters of exhibition space is being built at a cost of approximately 130,000,000 euros. Following an international architectural competition the design of Benard Tschumi Architects and Athens based Michael Photiadies was awarded the 1st prize for this major international project. Construction of the museum is underway and it is anticipated to be completed in late 2008.
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