Deputy director says institution seeks ‘dynamic and positive conversation’ over sculptures taken from Athens in 19th century
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The sculptures – 17 figures and part of a frieze that decorated the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple on the Acropolis – were taken by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century when he was the British ambassador to the Ottoman empire, and have since been the subject of a long-running dispute over where they should be displayed.
Williams said: “What we are calling for is an active ‘Parthenon partnership’ with our friends and colleagues in. I firmly believe there is space for a really dynamic and positive conversation within which new ways of working together can be found.” to be returned to Greece on many occasions, even offering to loan some of his country’s other treasures to the British Museum in exchange.Mitsotakis has restated that Greece is open to negotiations but said: “Baby steps are not enough. We want big steps.”
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