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Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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If we returned all the things we stole the British museum would be empty.
There's loads of British stuff in the museum. All of Darwin's collections for one thing, plenty of artwork, lots of mediaeval and Roman finds, the famous dinosaur fossil collection, there's quite a bit of masonry in there from the Great fire of London.
Also a lot of stuff is from other countries but is on loan, such as all the Egyptian stuff.
To be fair, I’m sure there’s some British things in the British museum, I assume those could be kept.
I think the toilets were made in Britain. Yes, I know there is a lot of British stuff in there, but there is also quite a bit that has been basically looted from other countries during our colonial period.
Oh for sure, I was being tongue in cheek. I do think they should make a system for returning things stolen that would be appreciated more where they came from (I’m fine with guarantees of quality preservation and public display, but I think that’s as far as can be justified). We really can’t justify keeping things that we couldn’t buy today because they mean more than money to the people we stole them from.
Last time I heard a deal talked about in serious terms (which was some years ago), I believe the plan was for a "permanent loan" to Greece in exchange for a rotating selection of loans in return. Greece has a pretty impressive collection of ancient artifacts, and it would give British museum-goers a chance to see them.
Yes. It would.