Six legislators call for return of cultural treasures held by British Museum ‘to their Athenian home’
More MPs and peers have expressed support for the repatriation of theanniversary of the opening of the Athens museum where they believe they belong.
“Let us put international treasures on carefully chartered aeroplanes instead of desperate refugees,” she added, referring to the Conservative government’s controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. Athens has said persistently that, circumstances of ownership aside, it has no claim on any item bar the sculptures. About half of the decorative artworks that once adorned the Parthenon temple are exhibited in London. Plaster moulds of the pieces that campaigners claim werefrom the Golden Age monument stand next to surviving originals in the Acropolis Museum.
“The trustees firmly believe that there’s a positive advantage and public benefit in having the sculptures divided between two great museums, each telling a complementary but different story,” the Museum notes on its website.who in successive polls have backed returning the sculptures to Greece.
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