Architecture for the Ages: The New Acropolis Museum of Athens with Dimitrios Pandermalis
HAMMER | 3:30 p.m., Hammer Museum
The Acropolis Museum of Athens is a dazzling combination of modernist architecture and archaeological treasures, designed with the intent to reclaim the so-called Elgin Marbles, taken from Greece by a British lord in the 1800s.
Museum President Dimitrios Pandermalis discusses the museum’s transformation as well as hotly debated issues of artifact repatriation. He is a professor emeritus of classical archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a former Greek parliamentarian.
Copresented with the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Studies Initiative.
More detailed information as available on the Hammer Museum website.
Event Date: Sunday, Apr. 22, 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Price: Free
The Hammer is located at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 freeway’s Wilshire exit.
Parking is available under the museum.
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