Telegraph published the list with the forty-one incredible museums to visit before you die were and included two Greek museums among the best of the world.

More specifically, the New Acropolis Museum climbed up to the 24^th position of the catalogue. As Telegraph points out, this light, airy glass-and-concrete building was designed by Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi and inaugurated in June 2009. “Archaic and classical finds from the Acropolis site are displayed here – proud statues of the ancients and life-like stone carvings of animals. The top floor is devoted to the marble frieze that once ran around the top of the Parthenon. About half of the pieces are originals, while the remainder are white plaster copies. The missing pieces were removed by Lord Elgin in 1801 and are now in the British Museum in London. The Greeks have wanted them back for decades, and hope that this blatant presentation will finally convince the British to return them.”

Benaki Museum was positioned at the 25^th place, just after the New Acropolis Museum, in Telegraph’s list. “Housed in a neo-classical building with a lovely roof-terrace cafe, this museum traces Greek art right up the 20th century. Sculpture, ceramics, jewellery, paintings, furniture and costumes are on display, but top pieces include the Thessaly Treasure (a hoard of gold filigree jewellery set with precious stones, dating from the second century BC), two early paintings by El Greco, and the reconstruction of two 18th-century, wood-panelled, Ottoman-inspired living rooms.”

See the whole list, here.

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From: Anthi Sasmatzoglou

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