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Acropolis Museum vs Museum of Cycladic Art
Both are rated very highly by reviewers writing for major publications. Overall, Acropolis Museum is preferred by most writers compared to Museum of Cycladic Art. Acropolis Museum comes in at #2 in Athens with approval from 8 reviews such as Afar Magazine, Michelin Guide and Frommer's.
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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Museum of Cycladic Art
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4 Neophytou Douka Str., Kolonaki, Athens 10674, Greece
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Fodor's
"An outstanding collection of 350 Cycladic artifacts dating from the Bronze Age, including many of the enigmatic marble figurines."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"This exceptional private museum boasts the largest independent collection of distinctive Cycladic art... that inspired many 20th-century artists, such as Picasso and Modigliani."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"300 works representative of ancient Greek art are also exhibited, and a new wing houses the Antiquities collection of the Athens Academy."
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Let's Go
"The other floors display ancient Minoan and Mycenaean art, artifacts from Cyprus, and a captivating multimedia exhibit depicting daily life in Greek antiquity. "
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"The outstanding Museum of Cycladic Art (Goulandris Foundation), created in 1986, is devoted to the Aegean civilisation, in particular the prehistory of the Cyclades."
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