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Greece

Acropolis Museum

13 pictures · 15 May 2025

The Acropolis Museum in Athens holds finds from the rock above it. The first museum, completed in 1874, could not hold what later excavations yielded. Bernard Tschumi, with the Greek architect Michael Photiadis, won the final competition, lifting the building on pillars above the excavation. The museum opened on 20 June 2009. My video pans from the forecourt through the glass floor into the foundations below. My photographs show cases of painted vases, pottery, sherds and roof ornaments above lit glass panels, relief fragments on a grey concrete wall, and a limestone pediment of three bearded figures with coiling serpent tails. Another video walks through archaic sculpture to kouroi and korai.

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