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Acropolis Museum vs Greek Folk Art Museum (Museo Ellinikis Laikis Technis)
Both are praised by professional reviewers writing for major publications. Overall, Acropolis Museum is preferred by most writers compared to Greek Folk Art Museum. Acropolis Museum comes in at #2 in Athens with recommendations from 8 reviews including Afar Magazine, Frommer's and Travel + Leisure.
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
Top Choice
"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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Greek Folk Art Museum (Museo Ellinikis Laikis Technis)
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Kidathineon 17, Plaka, Athens, Greece
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Fodor's
"Focuses on folk art from 1650 to the present, with especially interesting embroideries, stone and wood carvings... and Karaghiozis (shadow player figures)."
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Don't miss the room of uniquely fanciful landscapes and historical portraits
Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"This superb collection gathers secular and religious folk art, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries."
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Lonely Planet
"As the name suggests, this museum takes a historical journey through a well-displayed collection of tools and machinery, spread out in a warren of small rooms in a stately early 19th-century Plaka house."
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Michelin Guide
1 Star
"This museum lets visitors admire the rich colours and designs of the embroideries... and the variety of traditional costumes."
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Let's Go
"This small, quiet, and well-organized museum houses a collection of authentic Greek folk art, modest in size, but impressive in scope and quality."
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