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Byzantine and Christian Museum vs Acropolis Museum
Byzantine Museum and Acropolis Museum are both recommended by professional reviewers writing for major publications. Overall, Acropolis Museum scores significantly better than Byzantine Museum. Acropolis Museum comes in at 97 with positive reviews from 8 sources like The Telegraph, Lonely Planet and Let's Go.
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Leoforos Vas. Sofias 22, Athens, Greece
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Frommer's
"Here you'll find Greece's largest collection of icons—which are paintings, usually of the Holy Family and saints, characteristically done on wood."
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Lonely Planet
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"This outstanding museum... presents a priceless collection of Christian art from the 3rd to 20th centuries."
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Fodor's
"One of the few museums in Europe focusing exclusively on Byzantine art displays an outstanding collection of icons, mosaics, tapestries, and sculptural fragments."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"An inspired museum laid out along modern didactic lines."
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"This museum boasts one of the richest collections in the world dedicated to the Byzantine Empire and the history of Christianity in the East"
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Acropolis Museum
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Dionysiou Areopagitou 15, Makrigianni District, Athens 11742, Greece
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"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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