BRING THEM BACK!

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35 years ago, Melina Mercouri started the campaign for the return of the Parthenon sculptures currently at the British Museum. Given her great contribution to raise global awareness for the reunification of the Parthenon sculptures, the Acropolis Museum produced a video about the removal of the sculptures from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin and Melina Mercouri’s international campaign, with material provided by the Melina Mercouri Foundation.

The 23-minute video will be on display on Monday 6 March 2017, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the auditorium on the ground floor of the Museum.

On this day, entry will be free for visitors to both the auditorium and the Museum exhibition areas. Like every Monday, the Museum will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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3D printing is helping museums in repatriation and decolonisation efforts

brianlux

Pap said:

3D printing is helping museums in repatriation and decolonisation efforts

  l like it that some of the ancient artifacts are being returned to their place of origin.  Totally on board with that idea!

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'Product of theft': Greece urges UK to return Parthenon marbles

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https://news.artnet.com/art-world/george-clooney-elgin-marbles-1949908

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Pap said: The 23-minute video will be on display on Monday 6 March 2017, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the auditorium on the ground floor of the Museum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m34PaI4baA

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The Times view on the Elgin Marbles: Uniting Greece’s Heritage

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Greece rebuts British Museum claim Parthenon marbles were ‘removed from rubble’

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mickeyrat

https://youtu.be/eJPLiT1kCSM

Cropduster-80

I agree generally. The british museum has all kinds of explanations as to why they should keep them. They hand out flyers in there 

However last time I was in Athens I was shocked by the lack of security at monuments.  You can basically climb over whatever and no one was there to stop you. People were touching everything. I was alarmed by that, truly. Way different than Rome which is similar in the fact there are monuments and ruins all over the center of a modern city 

they belong to Greece so it’s up to them how they want to preserve them or not. Inside museums were better and that’s where they would go presumably 

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1728722677479694770

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https://youtu.be/5Vl8SKvXu7Y

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