The New Acropolis Museum is just below the Acropolis with unique views of the holy rock.

The museum was constructed after an international contest, in which Bernard Tschumi's and Mixalis Fotiadis' architecture firms won. The New Acropolis Museum opened its doors in 2009 and from then on thousands of people from all around the world visit it daily.

The New Acropolis Museum houses all the findings from the site of the Acropolis, which are findings of great beauty and priceless archaeological value. Among others, the visitors will be at a loss in front of the five impressive caryatids and the vacancy among them, waiting for the sixth Caryatid to return home from the British Museum.

At the last level of the museum is the Parthenon gallery, where all sculptures of the monument are exposed. Thanks to the special design of the museum, visitors can enjoy the exhibits while having visual contact with the Parthenon itself. The original sculptures are combined with the copies of those that are in museums abroad, so that the visitor can have for the first time a complete understanding of the Parthenon's sculptural decoration in its entirety.

The New Acropolis Museum has an excellent café restaurant with views to the Acropolis, as well as gift shops that sell items with themes from the Acropolis and its temples. Moreover, in the museum spaces many events are organized that ase related to the Acropolis and generally Ancient Greece.

New Acropolis Museum: Address, Dionysiou Areopagitou Street 15, Athens.

More information concerning the New Acropolis Museum can be found in www.theacropolismuseum.gr and the number 210 9000900.