Publication detail

Museum of Art Versus the City as a Work of Art: A Case of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens

HORÁČEK, M.

Original Title

Museum of Art Versus the City as a Work of Art: A Case of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens

Type

journal article in Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

This study is concerned with the New Acropolis Museum, which was opened in June 2009 in Athens. The New Acropolis Museum, out of all of the world’s new museum structures of the past century, has dramatically intensified the issue of the relationship between parts and the whole, between the building and its integration into the setting, between the museum function and the historical city, which is a protected heritage site, one treated as a museum exhibit. With the New Acropolis Museum as an example, the study would like to highlight the complexity and the ambiguity of the present-day relationship between the heritage protection, the museumisation of art and the design of our environment. The particular attention is focused on the vivid debate about the building and the distinguishing the differences between traditionalist and modernist views of architecture manifested in this debate. These differences are deeper rooted than many people have been willing to admit.

Keywords

theory of architecture; museology; architectural conservation; traditionalism; modernism; the Acropolis Museum; Athens

Authors

HORÁČEK, M.

RIV year

2014

Released

22. 7. 2014

Publisher

MIT- Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Location

Cambridge, Mass., USA

ISBN

1994-6961

Periodical

Archnet-IJAR

Year of study

8

Number

2

State

United States of America

Pages from

47

Pages to

61

Pages count

15

URL

http://www.archnet-ijar.net/index.php/IJAR/issue/view/28

BibTex

@article{BUT112454,
  author="Martin {Horáček}",
  title="Museum of Art Versus the City as a Work of Art: A Case of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens",
  journal="Archnet-IJAR",
  year="2014",
  volume="8",
  number="2",
  pages="47--61",
  doi="10.26687/archnet-ijar.v8i2.428",
  issn="1994-6961",
  url="http://www.archnet-ijar.net/index.php/IJAR/issue/view/28"
}