{"id":1568,"date":"2017-06-10T10:14:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T10:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travel-zone-greece.com\/blog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2022-04-18T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T12:06:28","slug":"two-museums-athens-among-41-spectacular-see-around-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travel-zone-greece.com\/blog\/two-museums-athens-among-41-spectacular-see-around-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Museums in Athens among 41 Most Spectacular to See Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Acropolis Museum and the Benaki Museum in Athens are among the world\u2019s 41 most incredible museums to visit before you die, according to the online edition of UK newspaper <em>The Telegraph<\/em>. The list was compiled by <em>The Telegraph\u2019s<\/em> experts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Acropolis Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As noted in the article, the Acropolis Museum \u2014 inaugurated in June 2009 and designed by Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi \u2014 displays<em> \u201cproud statues of the ancients and life-like stone carvings of animals\u201d<\/em>. It is also mentioned that the museum\u2019s top floor is devoted to the marble frieze that once ran around the top of the Parthenon. <em>\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1569\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travel-zone-greece.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Acropolis_museum_1a-e1495473322214.jpg\" alt=\"Acropolis_museum_1a\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Benaki Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travel-zone-greece.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Benaki-Museum-1024x684-e1495473403403.jpg\" alt=\"Benaki-Museum-1024x684\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Referring to the Benaki Museum, the article informs that it is housed in a neo-classical building<em> \u201cwith a lovely roof-terrace cafe\u201d<\/em> and traces Greek art right up the 20th century. <em>\u201c\u2026Top 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.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1571\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travel-zone-greece.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/jewelry-exhibition-benaki-museum-584x768-e1495473456705.jpg\" alt=\"jewelry-exhibition-benaki-museum-584x768\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other incredible museums to visit before you die, according to the article, include New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris\u2019s Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Rome\u2019s Vatican Museums, London\u2019s Design Museum, Amsterdam\u2019s Van Gogh Museum, Barcelona\u2019s Museu Picasso, St Petersburg\u2019s The Hermitage and many more.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: GPT)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Acropolis Museum and the Benaki Museum in Athens are among the world\u2019s 41 most incredible museums to visit before you die, according to the online edition of UK newspaper The Telegraph. 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Acropolis Museum As noted in the article, the Acropolis Museum \u2014 inaugurated in June 2009&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travel-zone-greece.com\/blog\/two-museums-athens-among-41-spectacular-see-around-world\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Museums in Athens among 41 Most Spectacular to See Around the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[227,341],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Two Museums in Athens among 41 Most Spectacular to See Around the World | Travel Zone Greece<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.travel-zone-greece.com\/blog\/two-museums-athens-among-41-spectacular-see-around-world\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two Museums in Athens among 41 Most Spectacular to See Around the World | Travel Zone Greece\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Acropolis Museum and the Benaki Museum in Athens are among the world\u2019s 41 most incredible museums to visit before you die, according to the online edition of UK newspaper The Telegraph. 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