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Soft targets and no-win dilemmas: response to Dimitris Plantzos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anthony Snodgrass
Anthony Snodgrass*
Affiliation:
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK (Email: [email protected])
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Extract

Most of the opposition directed at the new AcropolisMuseum (herafter NAM), both beforeand since its opening in June 2009, has turned out to be politically motivated, mainly from the Left in Greece, mainly from the Right in Britain (the Daily Telegraph called it 'a hideous visitor centre in modern Athens'before it was even built [Wilson 2006]). Dimitris Plantzos comes at the museum from a different angle, but he too is determinedly on the attack. A first sign of this is his total silence about the protection and exhibition of the archaeological site underlying the museum, one of its major positive (and innovatory) features.

Type
Debate
Information
Antiquity , Volume 85 , Issue 328 , June 2011 , pp. 629 - 630
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2011

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References

Wilson, A. N. 2006. Artefacts are safer in Western hands. Daily Telegraph (14 April 2006).Google Scholar