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Attraction · Athens, Greece
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Mentioned in Athens Practical Guide: Timing, Transit, and Avoiding the Tourist Markup.
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A purpose-built museum at the foot of the Acropolis, opened in 2009, holding the finds from the Acropolis slopes and summit, with a top-floor gallery displaying the surviving Parthenon frieze and metopes in their original arrangement.
For the Parthenon Gallery, which aligns with the real building visible through the window and marks every absent sculpture with a blank cast. It is the clearest presentation of a contested collection anywhere.
Exceptional museum architecture that argues through arrangement rather than text. The glass floor over the excavated ancient neighbourhood is included at the entrance. Winter admission falls to 15,00 euros, and the museum runs free admission days including 6 March and 25 March.
It is a second ticket on top of the Acropolis site itself. Peak season crowds build from mid-morning. The reduced rate does not fall in winter even though the general rate does.
Anyone visiting the Acropolis, which is effectively everyone in Athens, and particularly visitors interested in the Parthenon Marbles question who want to see how the case is actually made.
You have half a day in Athens and have not yet been up to the Acropolis itself. The site comes first; this is the companion to it, not a substitute.
Go early or late in the day in summer. Do the Acropolis first and the museum second, because the gallery makes far more sense once you have stood on the hill. If your dates are flexible, the winter season from 1 November is 5 euros cheaper and considerably quieter.
General admission is 20 euros with reduced admission at 10 euros in the summer season, 1 April to 31 October. In the winter season, 1 November to 31 March, general admission is 15,00 euros and reduced stays at 10,00 euros. Reduced and free tickets are obtained through specific channels rather than the general desk, and there are free admission days including 6 March and 25 March.
Akropoli station on Metro line 2 is directly outside the entrance. It is a short walk from the Plaka and from the pedestrianised Dionysiou Areopagitou street that runs below the Acropolis.
Makrygianni, immediately south-east of the Acropolis rock, on the pedestrian street that circles the base of the hill. Plaka and Monastiraki are within fifteen minutes on foot.
Two hours. The Parthenon Gallery alone deserves forty-five minutes, and the ground-floor excavation is worth stopping for on the way in.
The museum is step-free with lifts to all levels, which is a marked contrast to the Acropolis site itself.
Go, and go after you have climbed the hill rather than before. Twenty euros is fair for what is one of the best museum buildings of the century, and if you can travel in the winter season it is 15.
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The Acropolis Museum charges 20 euros general admission and 10 euros reduced. Those are the summer rates, running 1 April to 31 October; the winter season from 1 November to 31 March is cheaper at 15,00 euros general, with the reduced rate staying at 10,00. The museum was built to make a point. The top floor, the Parthenon Gallery, is oriented on exactly the same axis as the Parthenon itself, which stands visible…
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