The brand-new Acropolis museum opens officially - Greek European Culture
Poste par architecturecompetitions on June 23rd, 2009The Acropolis Museum was firstly conceived away Constantinos Karamanlis in September 1976, who also selected the section, upon which the Museum was lastly built. With his captivating plan, C. Karamanlis defined the lack and established the means promoting a unexplored Museum equipped with all detailed facilities promoting the succinctness of the costly Greek artifacts, where later the Parthenon sculptures command be reunited.
For these reasons, architectural competitions were conducted in 1976 and 1979, but without star. In 1989, Melina Mercouri, who as Minister of Culture inseparably identified her policies with the consumer promoting the reappearance of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum, initiated an cosmopolitan architectural tourney. This conception then needed to be integrated into the New Museum that was to be built on this section.
The results of this tourney were annulled following the conception of a gigantic urban accommodation on the Makriyianni section dating from Archaic to Early Christian Athens.
In the year 2000, the Organization promoting the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum announced an allure to a unexplored impassioned, which was realized in concordat with the Directives of the European Union. It is this Tender that has wake up to maturation with the awarding of the working model impassioned to Bernard Tschumi with Michael Photiadis and their associates and the close of construction in 2007.
Today, the unexplored Acropolis Museum has a amount sack of 25,000 adapt meters, with introduction arrange of one more point 14,000 adapt meters, ten times more than that of the enduring museum on the Hill of the Acropolis. The out-and-out toe is on Saturday, June 20th. The unexplored Museum offers all the amenities expected in an cosmopolitan museum of the 21st century.
You can clock the out-and-out toe of the unexplored Acropolis museum endure on the internet.
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