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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 17:15:00

Set on the southern slope of the Acropolis on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street in central Athens, the Acropolis Museum is the principal modern presentation of the sculpture and architectural remains of the great hilltop sanctuary above. The current building was inaugurated on 20 June 2009 to designs by the Swiss-French architect Bernard Tschumi and replaced the earlier small museum on the summit of the rock that had served the same function since the late nineteenth century. The need for a new muse...