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Goddess Nike (1st to 3rd century AD .
The Acropolis Museum (Greek: Μουσείο Ακρόπολης, Mouseio Akropolis) is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on the surrounding slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece. The Acropolis Museum also lies over the ruins of part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens.
The museum was founded in 2003 while the Organization of the Museum was established in 2008. It opened to the public on 20 June 2009.[1] More than 4,250 objects are exhibited over an area of 14,000 square metres.
History
History
The first museum was on the Acropolis; it was completed in 1874 and underwent a moderate expansion in the 1950s. However, successive excavations on the Acropolis uncovered many new artifacts which significantly exceeded its original capacity.
An additional motivation for the construction of a new museum was that in the past, when Greece made requests for the return of the Parthenon Marbles from the United Kingdom, which acquired the items in a controversial manner, it was suggested by some British officials that Greece had no suitable location where they could be displayed.[3] Creation of a gallery for the display of the Parthenon Marbles has been key to all recent proposals for the design of a new museum.
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The entrance of the Acropolis Museum
Statue of Papposilenus carrying the infant Dionysos
.t was discovered in 1832 at the Theatre of Dionysos. Parts of the upper and lower extremities of Papposilenus, the head and part of the left hand of Dionysos, as well as part of the mask he is holding are missing.
It depicts the elderly Papposilenus who carries on his shoulder the infant Dionysos, the god of wine and theatre. In theatrical tragicomedies, known as satyr plays, Papposilenus is the wisest of the Sileni and the tutor of young Dionysos. He is depicted here as an actor, with a hairy theatrical costume and a himation wrapped around his lower body. He is bearded and bald, with wrinkles on his forehead, raised eyebrows and thick nose– features reminiscent of the portraits and statues of the philosopher Socrates. Papposilenus would have held in his right hand some object related to the cult of Dionysos, or a wooden staff on which to lean. On his left shoulder Dionysos is seated, wearing a short chiton, a long himation and boots. He holds a female theatrical mask in his right hand.
This sculpture is considered a copy of a statue from the 5th cent. BC. Archaeologists have associated the original sculpture with the satyr play Dionysiskos (Infant Dionysos) by Sophocles, with which the great Classical tragedian won the theatrical contests of 438 BC. The play's storyline concerns the upbringing and education of the youthful Dionysos.
Heracles and Triton
Triton (/ˈtraɪtɒn/; Greek: Τρίτων, translit. Trítōn) is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, god and goddess of the sea respectively. Triton lived with his parents in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea. Later he is often depicted as having a conch shell he would blow like a trumpet.[citation needed]
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A three-bodied Daemon which was part of the pediment of the Hekatompedon temple, built between 570–550 BC. Later demolished in 490 BC.
Hekadompedos . Lioness Pediment
Emperor Lucius Verus .
Statue of Athena
Statue of seated goddess.
Statue head of Artemis Brauronia, possibly by Praxiteles, c. 330 BC. Found at the Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia at the Acropolis.
Prokne and Itys .
Ionic capital from the Propylon of the Acropolis.
Five Caryatids still waiting their lonely sister from the British museum .
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On the high stylobate of the south porch of the Erechtheion are six maidens, who take the place of columns in supporting the entablature. Now severely weathered and affected by pollution, five of the caryatids were removed to the Acropolis Museum in 1978 and replaced with replicas. The other figure (the second from the left in the first row of four) was appropriated by Lord Elgin, who, between 1801 and 1805, removed about half of the surviving sculptures from the fallen ruins of the Acropolis and from the Parthenon, itself. They were acquired by the British Museum in 1816 and put on public display the following year. Between 1937 and 1938, even the British caryatid, which certainly is in better condition than its sisters, was damaged when masons abraded the surface (as well as that of some of the Parthenon sculptures) in a misguided and unauthorized attempt to brighten them for the opening of the new gallery in which they were to be displayed .
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Hermes from o hermaic stele . Reconstraction of the east pediment of the Parthenon .
Portrait of Alexander the Great .
Parthenon
Reconstraction of the west pediment of parthenon .
Parts of the Parthenon metope .
View form the Acropolis Museum .
Pieces of the Parthenon metope .
Acropolis of Athens : View from the Acropolis museum
Dionysos Kore (Persephone) and Demeter .
Acropolis Museum, museum in Athens, Greece, housing the archaeological remains of the ancient Acropolis site.
The original Acropolis Museum was founded in 1865 and opened in a building on the archaeological site in 1874. To accommodate the growing collection of discoveries, the museum constructed an additional building in 1888 and another after World War II. Plans to construct an even larger space away from the site began in the late 20th century, and in 2009 a 226,000-square-foot (21,000-square-metre) building opened at the foot of the Acropolis slope. Designed by Swiss American architect Bernard Tschumi, the structure was intended to resemble the nearby Parthenon. In addition to adjusting the dimensions and modeling the columns to mirror those of the Parthenon exactly, Tschumi’s design also incorporated seismic technology in anticipation of the region’s frequent earthquakes. Among the museum’s many treasures are artifacts from the Archaic, Classical, and Roman periods. All were found in the Parthenon, on the slopes of the Acropolis, or in other extant structures on the site. Notable works from the collection include the original caryatids, the relief of Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, and portions of the Parthenon frieze. The museum has hundreds of marble sculptures.
Acropolis Museum, Athens.
Although the Acropolis Museum was scheduled to be completed in time for the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, a series of archaeological discoveries on the site—including those of private homes from the early Christian period that contained artifacts such as marble busts, mosaic flooring, and amphorae—delayed its construction. The design plan was changed so that visitors would be able to peer through transparent floor panels to view the artifacts beneath their feet. In addition, an excavation site featuring the remains of an ancient village can be seen near the museum’s entrance.
The Acropolis Museum was built in large part to house the so-called Elgin Marbles, a collection of ancient Greek sculptures that were removed from the Parthenon in the 19th century by Thomas Bruce, 7th earl of Elgin, who was the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1799–1803). The Elgin Marbles are currently housed in the British Museum in London, but the Greek government has frequently demanded their return. Parthenon Hall, a top-floor gallery of the Acropolis Museum, has been set aside for their display in anticipation of their return one day.
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