The front part of a 500-490BC horse statue is prepared to be removed from the old Acropolis Museum in Athens on July 12. The horse is among 300 sculptures to be moved to a new museum at the foot of the Acropolis ancient hill.
The old Acropolis Museum built almost next to the Parthenon closed in early July after being in operation for 133 years and work has begun on preparing all its exhibits for transfer to the new Acropolis Museum designed by architect Bernard Tschumi by mid-September.
Hundreds of statues and priceless artefacts currently kept in warehouses will also be exhibited for the first time ever in the new museum. A demonstration of the technique used to package the artefacts was made on July 12 to Culture Minister George Voulgarakis, who visited the old museum of the Acropolis.
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