Overview
Bernard Tschumi’s building was designed to answer the argument that Greece had nowhere to display the sculptures held in London — the Parthenon Gallery shows the surviving originals interleaved with plaster casts of the pieces in the British Museum, and the difference in colour makes the case without a word of text. Lower floors hold archaic korai, the Moschophoros and the caryatids from the Erechtheion.
Highlights
The Parthenon Gallery is the whole point; go up first and come down. The glass floor over the excavation at the entrance is worth ten minutes on its own. The café terrace on level 2 looks straight at the Acropolis and is open to anyone with a ticket.