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Article: Finally, Athens' spaceship lands; It took three decades to materialise but the Acropolis Museum is out of this world.(Features)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2009
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Byline: Jo Tweedy
ATHENIANS have grown old waiting for the city's new Acropolis Museum. From the first seeds of suggestion in 1976, it has taken more than three decades for this monolithic vision of glass and steel to arise. A few grey hairs won't bother the Greek capital's five million inhabitants but the fact that the Elgin Marbles - which they had hoped would be in the museum - remain 2,000 miles away in London rankles far more.
For almost 2,500 years, the Acropolis has been a touchstone for the country's fortune. Its construction in the 5th Century BC sparked a gilded age of creativity. Until now, thousands of artefacts from the gargantuan Parthenon ...