Excessive praise for the new Acropolis Museum

The daily I Kathimerini criticises politicians and journalists for their excessive praise of the newly opened Acropolis Museum in Athens: "Have we lost all sense of proportion? Are we exaggerating the value of a building so that we ourselves will seem the greatest, [although] we attend this inauguration only by coincidence and did nothing special to bring it about. ... If it's so important to inaugurate a museum that not all archaeologists and scientists agree is good and necessary, what to make of the Parthenon? With what words should we honour the Parthenon when in our lack of moderation we've already used up all the words fitting to describe it in other speeches of praise?"

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