The exhibition, The New Acropolis Museum, is open to the public from Wednesday, October 21, through Saturday, December 19. Two public lectures, made possible by the Onassis Foundation, are scheduled. Admission to the exhibition and the related programming is free of charge.

The new Acropolis Museum, which opened in June, is architecturally stunning, strategically sited to be in visual dialogue with the Sacred Rock of the Athenian Acropolis. For the first time, all significant archaeological finds from the area are consolidated into one, state-of-the-art museum, highlighting the importance of the site in shaping artistic expression in Greco-Roman antiquity and its continuing influence on perceptions of Greek art.

Introducing the Columbia exhibition are planning documents from Bernard Tschumi Architects, the firm that designed the museum. Tschumi, a New York-based Swiss architect, is a member of the faculty of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where he served as dean from 1988 to 2003.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Wallach Art Gallery is issuing an illustrated publication with essays by the curator, by Angelos Chaniotis, a noted authority in classical studies, and by Dimitrios Pandermalis, director of the Acropolis Museum, as well as a statement by Tschumi. Ioannis Mylonopoulos, professor of Ancient Greek architecture and iconography in Columbia’s department of art history and archaeology, is serving as curator of this exhibition.

Wallach Art Gallery is located on the eighth floor of Schermerhorn Hall on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus, 116th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. To learn more, call 212-854-2877.

The two public lectures are:

a) The Parthenon and the Decline of Greek Architecture by Lothar Haselberger, the Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. Tuesday, October 13, 6:30 p.m., Room 612 Schermerhorn Hall.

b) The Parthenon Sculptures and Periklean Policies by Jenifer Neils, the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University. Wednesday, November 11, 6:30 p.m., Room 612 Schermerhorn Hall.