This article is an interesting read – both about Greek bureaucracy and the New Acropolis Museum.

As we have not seen the completed museum yet, only an early pre-completion preview, the article gives a mouthwatering must-visit description.

On Greek bureaucracy this is perfect, accurate and the story told can be applied to everything in Greece.

Go visit the museum.
Fire the bureaucrats, almost every one of them, save the few (5% would be generous) who really contribute. Life in Greece would immediately be 100 times healthier and better for all who sail under the fluttering blue and white flag.

http://globalista.co.uk/destinations/athens/itineraries/the-new-acropolis-museum-postcard

A new Building, a new era, the new Acropolis museum opens in June.

Athens has improved so much in the last 6 years from the visitor’s viewpoint.
The walk all the way around the Acropolis, pedestrianized, with outdoor-indoor cafes punctuating a stroll beneath that most impressive of monuments has been the foundation of the transformation.

Everything of immediate note and fame to see in the centre of Athens is well, there within walking distance in the centre – all major museums and sites.

Now the new Acropolis Museum Building present a the final treat.

The Grand opening on the 20th June will be followed by 3 days of exclusive admission only to ticket-holders who have purchase tickets online (available from 1 week before the official opening day).
The museum will cost only 1 Euro for admission until the end of 2009.

Next year – 2010 – the admission charge will increase to a still very reasonable 5 Euros.

Apart from the endless delights, contemporary methods of display and plethora of treasures on show, there will also be a gift shop and cafe-restaurant at the museum.

Nearest metro station (entrance right outside the museum) is “Acropolis” .

There are two entrances – from the Metro station (on Makrygianni Street) it’s just 40 metres to the Acropolis pedestrianized walkway and then another entrance is round the corner on a side street (Mitseon Street).

Information and tickets http://www.newacropolismuseum.gr

Guide to Athens http://www.cretetravel.com/Athens/Athens_mini_guide/Athens_mini_guide-Museums.htm

(or www.CreteTravel.com/Athens )

Soon the rest of the Acropolis Museum the dramatic and modern new one, will open (the ground floor – but a small part of it – already has opened its doors), when may be the subject of bookie’s odds in London and betting dens in Las Vegas.

Britain’s Spectator magazine has written about it … read it here >
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/style-and-travel/1875481/acropolis-now.thtml

Museum personnel will start moving the largest, weighty exhibits to the new Acropolis Museum in Athens on Sunday 14 October with the help of 3 cranes.

Today the 4th day of October a rehearsal takes place to check safety and technical strategies are all aok.

We have a great hotel which will benefit from being within 2 minutes (yes literally and truthfully) stroll of the new museum….if you want to spend time at the museum and only a few visits to all the other parts of Athens you may wish to see, there could be none better. But wait…it will be a little while before the new museum opens…the date is not yet clear.