Wednesday, March 5, 2008

New Acropolis Museum due to open in September: but will they win back the Elgin marbles?

Posted (3/5/2008 5:04 AM); 8h 14m ago By Thanassis Stavrakis
A woman walks past copies of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon frieze sculptures in the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. Museum officials oversaw a three-month operation to transfer more than 300 sculptures from an old museum on the Acropolis, some 400 meters away. The new glass and concrete museum, designed by architect Bernard Tschumi, is expected to open by the end of this year...
For more about architect Bernard Tschumi: http://www.tschumi.com/home.asp?flashver=9&res=800x600&color=32

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