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Helena Smith in Athens

FOUND: Athens museum unveils design for major renovation - What They Never Told You

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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