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Acropolis Museum

Athens

The sculpture from the Acropolis, shown in daylight with the Parthenon itself through the window. It stands over the ruins of the ancient city, and you walk above them on glass on the way in.

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Moschophoros
Moschophoros is an ancient Greek statue of the Archaic period, also known in English as The Calf Bearer. It was excavated in fragments in the Perserschutt on the Acropolis of Athens in 1864.

Kritios Boy
Critius · 480s BC
The marble Kritios Boy or Kritian Boy belongs to the Early Classical period of ancient Greek sculpture. It is the first statue from classical antiquity known to use contrapposto; Kenneth Clark called it "the first beautiful nude in art" The Kritios Boy is thus named because it is attributed, on slender evidence, to Kritios, who worked together with Nesiotes (sculptors of Harmodius and Aristogeiton) or their school, from around 480 BC.

Peplos Kore
540s BC
The Peplos Kore is an ancient sculpture from the Acropolis of Athens. It is considered one of the best-known examples of Archaic Greek art.

Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis
The so-called Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis is the head of a lost marble statue of a young man (Kouros or Ephebe sculpture type) of ca 480 BC, in the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece. The head and part of the pelvis were found in 1923 northeast of the museum site on the Acropolis of Athens.

Antenor Kore
The Antenor Kore is a Late Archaic statue of a girl (Kore) made of Parian marble, which was created around 530/20 BC. The statue was found in several fragments during excavations on the Athenian Acropolis in the so-called Perserschutt.

Euthydikos Kore
480 BC
The Euthydikos Kore is a late Archaic, Parian marble statue of the kore type, dated to c. 490, 480 BCE, that once stood amongst the votive sculptures on the Acropolis of Athens.

Why part of this gallery is plaster

The Acropolis Museum's third-floor gallery is built as a glass-walled chamber matching the orientation and dimensions of the Parthenon's cella, with the frieze mounted where it stood on the monument and in direct sight of it. Part of what is on view is not original: the museum displays plaster copies in place of the sculptures retained in the British Museum and other foreign museums, so the gaps in the display are the argument. The British Museum holds 15 metopes, 17 pedimental figures and 75 metres of frieze, and states that Lord Elgin removed them between 1801 and 1805 under an Ottoman permit found legal by Parliament in 1816. The Acropolis Museum calls the removal a seizure and disputes that the permit existed.