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Benaki Museum - Museum of Greek Culture vs Acropolis Museum
Both Benaki Museum and Acropolis Museum are rated highly by those who travel for a living. Overall, Acropolis Museum is the choice of most reviewers compared to Benaki Museum. Acropolis Museum scores 97 with approval from 8 reviewers such as Travel + Leisure, Let's Go and Michelin Guide.
Benaki Museum - Museum of Greek Culture
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1, Koumbari St & Vas. Sofias Av., Athens 106 74, Greece
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Lonely Planet
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"Greece’s finest private museum contains the vast collection of Antonis Benakis, accumulated during 35 years of avid collecting in Europe and Asia."
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Travel + Leisure
"This art and history museum is taking over Athens."
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Let's Go
"Come to the stately Benaki Museum for a truly grandiose museum experience."
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Fodor's
"Greece's oldest private museum received a spectacular addition in 2004, just before the Athens Olympics, with a hyper-modern new branch that looks like it was airlifted in from New York City."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"Expanded and organised along chronological lines from the prehistoric to the present day, underlining the continuity of Greek culture and traditions."
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Outstanding examples of goldware and icons, regional costume, and figurative painting.
Acropolis Museum
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Dionysiou Areopagitou 15, Makrigianni District, Athens 11742, Greece
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Frommer's
"Designed by Bernard Tschumi (and Michalis Fotiadis), the 21,000-sq.-m (226,000-sq.-ft.) glass-and-concrete museum is stunning."
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Fodor's
"The Acropolis Museum nods to the fabled ancient hill above it but speaks... in a contemporary architectural language."
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Lonely Planet
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"The imposing modernist building brings together the surviving treasures... including items formerly held in other museums or storage, as well as pieces returned from foreign museums."
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Travel + Leisure
"The museum holds more than 4,000 artifacts, including five of the six original caryatids returned by Britain, but its crown glory is the Parthenon Gallery."
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Afar Magazine
"One of my most wondrous experiences was a year or two ago at the Acropolis Museum, which is devoted to archaeology."
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