{"id":45027,"date":"2022-05-23T17:25:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=45027"},"modified":"2024-03-15T07:52:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:52:06","slug":"homeward-bound-the-continuing-story-of-the-elgin-marbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/homeward-bound-the-continuing-story-of-the-elgin-marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeward Bound: The Elgin Marbles&#8217; Continuing Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45028\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Parthenon_pediment_statues.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45028\" class=\" wp-image-45028\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Parthenon_pediment_statues-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Examples of statues from the Parthenon in the British Museum's Duveen Galleries\" width=\"291\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Parthenon_pediment_statues-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Parthenon_pediment_statues.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Elgin Marbles<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve written about the Elgin Marbles multiple times, most recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2021\/08\/coming-close-to-losing-your-marbles\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">last August<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For those unfamiliar, the Elgin Marbles are a series of sculptures and friezes kept in London\u2019s British Museum that was originally part of the Parthenon in Athens. Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire occupying Greece, removed the sculptures from the site between 1801 and 1812. Though the British Museum is considered one of the largest and most popular museums in the world, its administration seems to interpret the institution\u2019s prestige as a carte blanche to act like an entitled older sibling. On top of their refusal to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece, they have also refused to consider repatriating <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/new-rules-at-the-smithsonian\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">their large collection of Benin Bronzes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> pillaged from Nigeria in 1897. They have also continued to keep British Petroleum as a major donor despite the entire British museum community <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2022\/02\/this-months-great-british-break-up\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">abandoning oil and gas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> companies. Furthermore, their attempts to hop onto the crypto bandwagon have resulted in hundreds of tons of carbon dioxide being spewed into the atmosphere so they can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2022\/04\/nfts-deep-carbon-footprint\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mint NFTs of their collection highlights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But maybe the museum administration is finally starting to see reason. UNESCO announced last week that the British and Greek governments would <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10835679\/British-officials-agree-talks-resolve-long-running-dispute-Greece-Elgin-Marbles.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enter into formal talks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> regarding the fate of the Elgin Marbles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week, UNESCO\u2019s Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property (ICPRCP) held a session in Paris, where they announced that talks would be arranged. Previously, the British government has consistently stuck with the explanation; that the British Museum legally owns the Parthenon Marbles. Though the British Museum is a public institution, it operates independently from government oversight. Therefore, it is not up to the government but rather the museum\u2019s board of trustees to decide on repatriation. Greece has tried to play nice with the Brits, offering compromises like an exchange program similar to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/parthenon-greece-swap-italy-2042252\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the one they have with Italy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. However, until now, the Brits have consistently parroted the same excuses and rejections. But the British public has been turning to favor the return of the Parthenon marbles, including a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2021\/12\/23\/former-uk-culture-minister\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">former British culture minister<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Even Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while a classics student at Oxford, wrote a sharply-worded defense of the marbles\u2019 return to Athens. He referred to Britain as a \u201cnorthern whisky-drinking guilt-culture\u201d unfit to serve as the marbles\u2019 caretaker. Rather, they belong in \u201ca country of bright sunshine and the landscape of Achilles, \u2018the shadowy mountains and the echoing sea\u2019.\u201d But I suppose it&#8217;s not surprising that, since becoming Prime Minister, Johnson has tamed his Hellenophilia and maintains the legality of the marbles&#8217; ownership by the British Museum. But the British Museum board of trustees may now have to face the music, as stubborn as they tend to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Elgin Marbles have served as a sort of holy grail for art repatriation efforts worldwide. Elgin apologists will often use the slippery slope argument, saying that the return of the Parthenon Marbles will open the floodgates and lead to the British Museum being forced to repatriate its great treasures. This means collection highlights like the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/amayei.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/11\/98437457.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosetta Stone<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/Q7trgACVQhOlEjU7Bw33ZdoKJEVDHcviKvBZmL3o972Jl0hJAlQm2nfJCLg_9g=s1200\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Younger Memnon bust<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2020\/09\/GettyImages-1200550698-1024x678.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benin Bronzes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/17\/Double_headed_turquoise_serpentAztecbritish_museum.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Double-Headed Serpent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would all return to Egypt or Nigeria or Mexico. While that\u2019s unlikely to happen, would it be so bad even if it did? Does Britain have so little culture of its own that it finds itself desperate to fill the galleries of its greatest museum with the works of other peoples? I hope that agreeing to formal talks proves that the British government is perhaps becoming a little more mature in handling similar matters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written about the Elgin Marbles multiple times, most recently last August. For those unfamiliar, the Elgin Marbles are a series of sculptures and friezes kept in London\u2019s British Museum that was originally part of the Parthenon in Athens. Lord &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/homeward-bound-the-continuing-story-of-the-elgin-marbles\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[111,367,269,101,65,11,9,386,32,390],"class_list":["post-45027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-antiquities","tag-crime-and-punishment","tag-legal-matters","tag-looted-art","tag-museums","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-tales-from-the-dark-side","tag-the-dark-side","tag-theft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Homeward Bound: The Elgin Marbles\u2019 Continuing Story<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UNESCO announced last week that the British and Greek governments would enter into formal talks regarding the fate of the Elgin Marbles.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/homeward-bound-the-continuing-story-of-the-elgin-marbles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Homeward Bound: The Elgin Marbles&#039; 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