Acropolis Museum

Archaeological Museum For The Finds Of The Acropolis, Opened 2009 Over An Excavated Athenian Neighbourhood; Home Of The Parthenon Gallery And The Caryatids · Athens, Attica

The Acropolis Museum is the modern glass-and-concrete museum at the foot of the Acropolis that holds the sculptures and finds from the rock and its slopes. Opened in 2009 to a design by Bernard Tschumi, it stands on pillars over an excavated Athenian neighbourhood that you look down into through glass floors. Its treasures include the Archaic korai, the painted marble maidens of the sixth century BC; the five original Caryatids of the Erechtheion; and on the top floor the Parthenon Gallery, turned to the same alignment as the temple, with the frieze, metopes and pediment figures laid out as they once sat on the building, and the Parthenon itself visible through the glass walls. White plaster casts mark the pieces held in the British Museum in London, which makes the long debate over the Parthenon Marbles impossible to miss. People come because it makes the ruins above make sense. The honest caveats: it has its own ticket, queues build late morning, and some visitors find the glass floors unnerving.

Dionysiou Areopagitou 15, Makrygianni, Athens 117 42, at the foot of the south slope; Akropoli metro station, Athens, Attica, Greece

Open daily. Historically, from April to October roughly 08:00-20:00, with shorter hours on Mondays and late opening to about 22:00 on Fridays; from November to March roughly 09:00-17:00, with Fridays to about 22:00 and longer weekend hours. Closed 1 January, Easter Sunday, 1 May and 25-26 December. Last entry is about 30 minutes before closing. Take metro line 2 to Akropoli, which is a minute away. The ticket is separate from the Acropolis site; buying online ahead skips the ticket line. Confirm current hours and prices.

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