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Museum highlights Greece’s pride and pain – 20 Jun 09
Athens’ long-awaited Acropolis Museum is now open, a move Greece hopes will put pressure on Britain to return statues removed from the Parthenon 200 years ago.
Known as the Elgin Marbles, the statues remain on display in the British Museum in London having been sold to the museum in 1817.
But, as Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Phillips reports from Athens, there is no sign the 200-year-old dispute is going to be resolved any time soon.
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Censorship in the Acropolis museum / Costas Gavras animation
The Oscar winning film director Costas Gavras created a 13 minutes film that was a part of the Acropolis museum exhibition since its opening earlier this year. A 1,5 minutes sequence of the movie, depicted old icons of Greek Orthodox representatives destroying parts of the Acropolis in a effort to write off everything that had something to do with the old “pagan” religion.
It was this sequence that provoke the fury of the Greek church leaders, who demanded the stop of the film’s projection in the museum . The Greek minister of culture, Antonis Samaras, responded to their calls by ordering the removal of the particular scenes from the short film, scenes that were showing nothing more than the most recognized Greek monument’s history .
Costas Gavras said that he found what happened in Greece, a country member of the EE, very sad and unacceptable: the government gave in to the pressure of the church and censored the historical facts shown in the film. He added that the he is not surprised by the church’s reaction since it always avoids reality in an effort to save its belief. Costas Gavras added: I though that Greece had left behind such meanness…
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The New Acropolis Museum
The New Acropolis Museum is now a reality and we only hope that the missing sculptures will soon return to their home place where they belong.
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tom hanks visits new acropolis museum in athens
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The new Acropolis Museum – Μουσειο Ακροπολης
The museum and the excavation -Το μουσειο και η ανασκαφη
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The new Acropolis Museum 3
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Glass, stainless steel and cement are the key materials of the construction of the New Acropolis Museum.
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The new Acropolis Museum 2
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Glass, stainless steel and cement are the key materials of the construction of the New Acropolis Museum.
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The new Acropolis Museum 1
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Glass, stainless steel and cement are the key materials of the construction of the New Acropolis Museum.
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The New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece
The New Acropolis Museum opened its doors to the public for the first time on June 21, 2009. The museum consists of 4,000 objects found on the archaelogical site of the Acropolis of Athens, exhibited over an area of 14,000 square metres.
Official Website: www.theacropolismuseum.gr
Song Artist : Yiannis Poulopoulos
Song Title: To Agalma
ENGLAND…WE WANT OUR MARBLES BACK!!!!!
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New Acropolis Museum – Athens Greece ( Parthenon ) 2009
The official opening of the New Acropolis Museum took place Saturday 20 June 2009. Athens Greece ( Parthenon ) Greek Marbles and Statues.
Athens has celebrated the opening of the new Acropolis museum, the culmination of many years work by the internationally renowned Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi.
The Parthenon Frieze is the crowning glory of the museum. However a large part of the frieze has still not been returned. They were removed in 1806 by Lord Elgin, then British ambassador to the Ottoman empire. To this day 56 of the 96 slabs of the Frieze are still in the British Museum in London.
The British have always argued that there was no suitable storage space for the works in Athens. This is no longer the case, the Greeks believe. And Tschumi umes that the slabs will be returned to Athens some day.
Until then the missing pieces will appear as blurred holograms or copies in white marble to remind people of the missing originals.
Indeed the high profile of the opening ceremony may exert pressure on Britain to give back the antique Parthenon Frieze at last.
The Parthenon is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena whom the people of Athens considered their protector. The Parthenon by Ictinus and Callicrates with Phidias architect, at Athens, Greece
British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles is dedicated to securing the return of the Parthenon Marbles.The enic Government has constantly asked for the legal and ethical return of the Parthenon Marbles of British Museum.
Built specifically to provide proper space for the Parthenon marbles, many of which are now in the British Museum.
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