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Best answer for british museum gallery with the elgin marbles codycross trip to spain. When you move cultural heritage into a museum you move it out of context. Also speaking to ta nea last year british museum director hartwig fischer defended the acquisition of the marbles saying. The elgin marbles are british owned purchased by the crown from lord elgin in 1816 and presented by parliament to the british museum.

Ian jenkins greek architecture and its sculpture in the british museum british museum press 2006 mary beard the parthenon profile 2002 william st clair lord elgin and the marbles 3rd edition oxford university press. The removal of the marbles to greece would therefore they argue significantly reduce the number of people who have the opportunity to visit the marbles. Advocates of the british museum s position also point out that the marbles in britain receive about 6 million visitors per year as opposed to 1 5 million visitors to the acropolis museum. The amaravati collection sometimes called the amaravati marbles is a series of 120 sculptures and inscriptions in the british museum from the amaravathi mahachaitya in amaravathi guntur in the indian state of andhra pradesh.

We use cookies to make our website work more efficiently to provide you with more personalised services or advertising to you and to. A group of such protestors gathered at the museum s entrance to bring awareness to the issue and fight for the repatriation of the sculptures to greece. The british museum has consistently refused to return the priceless marbles despite pleas and protest by not only greeks but also by those who view athens as the marbles rightful home.