Key facts
- Established
- 20 June 2009 ( 2009-06-20 )
- Location
- Dionysiou Areopagitou Street , Athens , Greece
- Type
- Archaeological Museum
- Collection size
- 4,250+ objects
- Visitors
- 2,000,312 (2024)
- Owner
- Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism
- Public transit access
- Akropoli
- Website
- theacropolismuseum.gr
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Archive
- Founded
- 2009
- Location
- Athens, Greece
- Status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
The Acropolis Museum (Greek: Μουσείο Ακρόπολης, Mouseio Akropolis) is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on the surrounding slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece. The Acropolis Museum also lies over the ruins of part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens.
The museum was founded in 2003, while the Organization of the Museum was established in 2008. It opened to the public on 20 June 2009. More than 4,250 objects are exhibited over an area of 14,000 square metres.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Acropolis Museum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.