The New Acropolis Museum at the World Media

The Acropolis Museum, designed by architect Bernard Tchumi with Michael Photiadis and their associates, has been constructed to exhibit the unique finds and architectural sculptures of the Acropolis of Athens.  Its official inauguration took place on June 20, 2009 and was attended by Heads of States and Governments, Ministers and other officials from around the world. The Secretariat General of Communication – Secretariat General of Information operated the Press Center for the official inauguration from June 17 through June 20 and facilitated more than 400 journalists and photographers, representing95 Greek and 167 foreign Media.  The Acropolis Museum has a total area of 25,000 square meters, with exhibition space of over 14,000 square meters, ten times more than that of the old museum on the Hill of the Acropolis offering all the amenities expected in an international museum of the 21st century. The admission price for the museum has been set at one euro throughout 2009, while from 2010 the admission price will rise to 5 euros.  According to Culture Minister Antonis Samaras, the new Acropolis Museum received 90,000 visitors in the first seven days since its official inauguration on June 20. The average number of tickets for the e-ticketing section for the first five days reached 11,000, while visits to the museum’s website exceeded 260,000 from the Americas to Nepal and Mongolia.

World Media on the Acropolis Museum

• Inside Athens’s stunning new Acropolis museum (Daily Mail, 05.07.2009)

• Successful first days for the Acropolis Museum (GRReporter.info, 01.07.09)

• The Lovely Stones (Vanity Fair, July 2009)

• The battle for the Parthenon marbles (guardian.co.uk, 30.06.09)

• At the Foot of the Acropolis (The Wall Street Journal, 30.06.09)

• Ancient Athens comes to life (The Times, 27.06.09)

• A New Way to See Ancient Athens (The Wall Street Journal, 26.06.09)

• A breast in London, a foot in Athens (GlobalPost.com, 25.06.09)

• Milestones – New Acropolis Museum opens (The Economist, 25.06.09)

• If We Ask Nicely, Can We Have Our Marbles Back? (The Huffington Post, 22.06.09)

• New calls for return of Elgin Marbles (IrishTimes.com, 22.06.09)

• Greece urges return of sculptures (BBC, 21.06.09)

• Greece demands marbles return as new Acropolis opens (AFP, 21.06.09)

• Greece’s New Acropolis Museum opens to visitors (AP, 21.06.09)

• President Georgi Parvanov to attend new Acropolis Museum opening(bnr.gr, 20.06.09)

• Opening of new museum in Acropolis, Cvetkovic in Athens (Radio Srbija, 20.06.09)

• A Home for the Marbles (The New York Times, 18.06.2009)

• The new Acropolis Museum website is active from today(GRReporter, 15.06.09)

• New Acropolis Museum (travelbite.co.uk, 15.06.09)

• Lecture on Acropolis Museum (ANA-MPA, 12.06.09)

• Who owns the Elgin Marbles? Romancing the Stones (Newsweek, 06.06.09)

• New Acropolis museum is summit of achievement (FT.com, 04.06.09)

• Return Elgin Marbles, Says Acropolis Museum Creator: Interview(Bloomberg.com, 26.05.09)

• Elgin Marbles question renewed as Athens museum opens (The Independent, 23.05.09)

• Acropolis treasures on display for euro1 (AP, 21.05.09)

• New Acropolis Museum to be inaugurated (Xinhua, 21.05.09)

• Acropolis museum to open in June: minister (AFP, 26.04.09)

• The New Acropolis Museum, Designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects(archinnovations.com, 07.04.2009)

• New Acropolis Museum Will Boost Tourism, Greek Minister Predicts(GlobalAtlanta.com, 01.04.09)

• Ancients modernised (dompost.co.nz, 24.02.09)

• Greece sets opening date for New Acropolis Museum (The China Post, 16.02.09)