This museum just opened a few months ago. Aren’t we lucky? It’s a beautiful museum with lots of light and space. There are so many more displays from the Acropolis than in the old museum. They’ve chosen to display the friezes and sculptures from the top of the four walls of the temple as they would have appeared on the temple itself. So they are up high on four walls that make a large rectangle—think of walking from the door of the temple all the way around the outside four walls back to the entrance again. If the museum doesn’t own the sculpture or panel (think of the famous Elgin Marbles in the British Museum as one example), they’ve made a plaster cast so you can see what it looked like in ancient times. Another display that I really liked was the one with the statues of the Carytids. (These are the originals, the ones outside on the Erechtheion are copies.) 
Then there were all the korai statues that I liked too. (I also liked the air conditioning--do you see a recurring theme here?) 
I wish I understood all the history as well as you seem to, but it's fun to see the ancient work anyway.
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