41 Museums To Visit In Your Lifetime

Housed all over the world are some of the greatest art and history collections. The experts at The Telegraph reveal where the best collections exist and the 41 museums never to miss in a lifetime. Lucky for us, two of those museums call Athens home - The Benaki Museum and the New Acropolis Museum.

Listed as number 24, the New Acropolis Museum is described as, ‘this light, airy glass-and-concrete building that was designed by Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi. Archaic and classical finds from the Acropolis site are displayed here – proud statues of the ancients and life-like stone carvings of animals. The top floor is devoted to the marble frieze that once ran around the top of the Parthenon. About half of the pieces are originals, while the remainder are white plaster copies.’

And at 25, the Benaki Museum is oused in a neo-classical building with a lovely roof-terrace cafe, this museum traces Greek art right up the 20th century.

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