The New Acropolis Museum, which cost $200 million and sits near the base of the Acropolis with a direct view of the Parthenon, is one of the highest-profile cultural projects undertaken in Europe in this decade. The museum holds more than 4,000 ancient works, including some of the best surviving classical sculptures that once adorned the Acropolis. The new facility, 21,000 square meters (226,000 square feet) of glass and concrete, was designed by the New York-based architect Bernard Tschumi. The new Acropolis Museum is one of the largest in Europe and houses the archaeological findings related to the Acropolis hill and the Parthenon.

Three concepts turn the unusual constraints and circumstances of the museum into a simple and precise artistic context with the mathematical and conceptual clarity of ancient Greece. The Acropolis museum, with its exceptional and significant collection of classical Greek sculpture, is arguably one of the most advanced in the world.

Natural light

More than in any other museum in the world, the New Acropolis Museum makes careful use of natural light. Much as the daylight in Athens differs from that in other major museum cities, so light for the exhibition of sculpture differs from the light involved in displaying paintings or drawings. The museum not only houses a specific magnificent collection but is also preeminently a museum of ambient natural light, concerned with the presentation of sculptural objects within it. Local DMC Conceptours will feature the new Acropolis Museum with specially selected guide lecturers that will make Greece’s ancient history come alive to its guests.