Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

The first Museum of the Acropolis was established in a cavity of the hill opposite the Parthenon in 1865. This museum never accommodated the antiquities of the Acropolis in a satisfactory manner, despite successive additions built on to it. Today, the new Museum, ten times larger in size than the original, provides a safe heaven for the masterpieces of the Acropolis and ensures that they are given the prominence they deserve. This is achieved with ideal interior atmospheric conditions, natural lighting, as well as easy visitor access, panoramic views and superior layout of...

When I was writing the first short guide to the Benaki Museum, in 1980, I had to make an almost superhuman effort to articulate a vast material into discrete chapters with a comprehensive and coherent line of reasoning. At that time the arrangement of the objects in the Museum was based on the principle of exhibition units by kind, which was, of course, completely contrary to my own views and vision. Today, after the enlargement of the Museum's premises and the radical remodeling of the original building, but above all the reorientation of the Museum's aims and the fundamen...