Delphi Archaeological Museum

[...] The modern museum offers a picture far removed from the mere accumulation of artifacts side by side and the ostentatious reconstruction of monuments in the few rooms of the first building at the beginning of last century. The exhibits are not simply placed alongside each other aw autonomous works of art or scattered images from the entries of an art encyclopaedia. They are rather arranged in chronological units, organically linked together, to compose o historical novel, the pages of which cover twelve centuries over the course of the display: a museological narrative of the religious, political and above all artistic activity of the most renowned pagan sanctuary and its oracle from the time of its foundation, which is lost in the mist of legend, down to the spread of Christianity. [...]