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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helena Smith in Athens

British architect choice for controversial revamp of Athens ‘museum of museums’

The National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
Only international architects were allowed to submit designs to renovate the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images

It is slated to be the “western world’s museum of museums”, a showcase of Greece’s greatest repository of ancient art.

Once completed, the revamped National Archaeological Museum in Athens will, say officials, not only have been expanded but “reborn” at a time of record tourism to the country.

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