The Belgrade Centre of the  participates in the events celebrating the Museums Night, organized in the Serbian capital on 14 May, with a photo exhibition on the New Acropolis Museum. The exhibition was organized especially for Serbia and is hosted at the exhibition halls of the Belgrade Centre. It provides a unique chance for the Belgrade audience to get acquainted with this great museum.

The exhibition features the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis, the site over which the New Museum was built, designed by architect Bernard Tschumi in collaboration with the Greek architect Michael Photiadis. Moreover, it presents exterior elevations of the building and the site with the findings of the excavation conducted during the museum’s construction as well as the interior spaces housing the artifacts of ancient Greek art:

The Gallery of the Slopes of the Acropolis comprises finds from the sanctuaries that were founded on the slopes of the Acropolis, as well as from settlements that developed on the slopes of the Hill, from all historic periods.

The Archaic Gallery (7th century BC, until 480/79 BC) houses sculptures and works that were the votive offerings of the people of antiquity. In the south side of the Gallery, depictions of young women (the Korai), the horse riders (the Hippeis) and many other freestanding works provide a striking picture of the Acropolis in the Archaic Period. In the Archaic Gallery, for the first time, visitors have the opportunity to view exhibits from all sides as three-dimensional exhibits.

The Parthenon Gallery presents the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon (in the original and copies) and offers information on how democratic bodies functioned in the 5th century BC.

The New Acropolis Museum is located by the southern slope of the Acropolis hill, on the Makryianni site. It stands some 280 meters southeast of the Parthenon. The building is designed in such way so that it gives the impression of a "transparent" space. As the museum is built over an extensive archaeological site, the floor, outside and inside, is often transparent using glass and thus the visitor can see the excavations below. There is an undisrupted view and an absence of walls. According to the architect Bernard Tschumi the orientation of the Marbles is exactly as it was at the Parthenon centuries ago. Both the proportions and the orientation of the Parthenon Gallery replicate those of the upper section of the Parthenon. The transparency of the Museum - and, in particular, of the Parthenon Gallery - provides a unique opportunity for viewing the Parthenon, high on the Sacred Rock, while at the same time seeing its architectural decoration on exhibition (plaster copies of the frieze are on display, as the originals are housed in the British Museum in London). The findings of the excavation can be seen from the transparent floor of the first level of the building.
The new Acropolis Museum has a total area of 25,000 square meters, with exhibition space of over 14,000 square meters, ten times more than that of the old museum. It houses approximately 4,000 artifacts found on the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis and on its base, covering the wide time period from the Mycenaean period to Roman and Early Christian Athens.


Some of the museum's most important exhibits are the Parthenon Frieze, the Caryatids of the Erechtheum, and the famous sculptures of the archaic period as well as those of the Golden Age of Pericles.

A short film about the New Acropolis Museum will be on screen daily throughout the duration of the exhibition (Production: the New Acropolis Museum, 2009, duration 9 min). Moreover, on the Museums Night, there will be a screening of the documentary "Erechtheum and time" (script and direction: Athanassia Drakopoulou, production: the Acropolis Restoration Service, 2001, duration 27 min).

The exhibition is organized within the framework of the Museums Night, which will be held for the eighth time this year. The exhibition aims to promote the Acropolis Museum, one of the world's greatest archaeological museums.

Opening hours
Monday - Friday: 12:00 - 19:00 p.m.
Entrance is Free