Photo Gallery Rooms With a View
The new Acropolis Museum in Athens, at the foot of the Acropolis itself, will show ancient sculptures the way they were meant to be seen -- in largely natural light.
A general view of the southeastern side of the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, which opens June 20, 2009.
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View of the Acropolis Museum with the Parthenon in the background. Greece hopes the new, state-of-the-art building will lure the Elgin Marbles back from Great Britain.
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European and Mediterranean culture ministers had a tour of the new museum on May 30.
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The interior of the new museum. "The antique sculptures on display will be lit the way they were lit in the Parthenon," says architect Bernard Tschumi, "-- primarily by sunlight."
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