The Kritios Boy is housed in which museum?

The Kritios Boy is housed in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. It is displayed in the museum’s gallery devoted to the early history of the Acropolis and Archaic-period sculpture.

The marble statue is one of the key works of Greece’s Severe Style, the transitional phase between Archaic and Classical art. Dated to after 480 BCE, it abandons the stiff, frontal convention of earlier kouroi. The youth shifts his weight onto his left leg while allowing the right leg to relax, creating a more natural balance and a subtle sense of movement.

The statue’s modern name comes from Kritios, the sculptor traditionally believed to have made it, although the attribution is not absolutely certain. The torso was found southeast of the Parthenon in 1865–1866, while the head was discovered near the Acropolis’s south walls in 1888. The pieces were eventually recognized as belonging together.

Visitors sometimes confuse the Acropolis Museum with the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, which holds many major Greek antiquities. The Kritios Boy, however, belongs to the Acropolis collection and is specifically exhibited at the Acropolis Museum.