(19 Jun 2009)
FILE:
Athens, 4 October 2007
1. Wide of new Acropolis museum as seen from Acropolis
Athens - 17 June, 2009
2. Wide of sign reading (Greek) "Acropolis Museum"
3. Pull out of reflection of Parthenon seen on top floor of new museum which houses the Parthenon gallery, to show entire museum
4. Pan of statues in gallery
5. Close up of statue
6. Mid shot of statues in gallery
7. SOUNDBITE: (Greek) Antonis Samaras, Culture Minster, referring to the Elgin Marbles:
"We now have the best museum in the world for these specific objects and we are very proud of this."
8. Medium of statues in gallery
9. SOUNDBITE: (Greek) Antonis Samaras, Culture Minister:
"Of course the Acropolis Museum at this time, answers the question which the British posed for many years that 'you don't have a museum in which we Britons could place those objects Elgin took from you 207 years ago."
FILE:
Athens, 3 September 2008
10. Pan from Acropolis to glass-enclosed Parthenon gallery of new Acropolis museum
11. Close-up of frieze detail
12. Wide of Parthenon gallery
Athens,17 June 2009
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bernard Tschumi, architect:
"It is meant to be seen in motion, you walk along and you see the story unravelling in front of your very eyes. This is only possible here. Couldn't be possible anywhere else."
14. Wide of Caryatid statues
15. Pull out from space left empty for Caryatid statue currently in British Museum
16. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Antonis Samaras, Culture Minister:
"From a family photo where the family is all together, you cannot take away two or three loved ones and say 'there's nothing wrong.' Here where we have the Caryatids, where there are six, you cannot say that with the one Caryatid in London 'it's not the end of the world'."
London, 18 June 2009
17. Wide of British Museum
18. Medium of man looking at Caryatid statue
19. Ground shot of Caryatid statue
20. Wide of gallery housing Elgin Marbles
21. Pan from Hannah Boulton, British Museum spokeswoman, looking at Elgin Marbles to close-up of marble detail
22. SOUDNBITE (English) Hannah Boulton, British Museum spokeswoman:
"And there in Athens they can tell the very important story about ancient Athens and ancient Greece but here in the museum, here in the British Museum, they can tell this equally important, although different story about Athens' place, ancient Athens' place, in world cultures, in world civilisations. And we feel that that division is actually very beneficial to the world's public. They can get these two different but complimentary stories about these wonderful objects."
23. Pan from Elgin Marbles to museum visitors
STORYLINE:
After years of delay, the new Acropolis museum is slated to open its doors this weekend, giving Greeks new ammunition for their bid to have the Elgin - or Parthenon - Marbles returned to their homeland.
The 180 (m) million US dollar museum will be officially inaugurated on Saturday.
Officials say the glass and concrete museum, about 400 metres from the Acropolis, will boost Greece's old but fruitless bid for the return of the 2,500-year-old sculptures, displayed in the British Museum for nearly two centuries since their removal from the site.
Athens says the sculptures were stolen from a work of art so important that its surviving pieces should all be exhibited together.
Culture Minister Antonis Samaras said the new museum would turn public opinion in favour of the Greek campaign.
Spreading across five levels, the museum provides an airy setting for some of the best surviving works of classical sculpture that once adorned the marble Acropolis temples.

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