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Acropolis Museum inauguration - the construction of the Parthenon

"The most perfect poem in stone" - Alphonse de Lamartine



Animated sequence used for the inauguration of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, 2010. Part of a 7-building video mapping project that surrounded the museum during its initial opening nights.
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