https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_wk5_wed515pm BRITISH MUSEUM / CULTURAL REPATRIATION Should the Parthenon Sculptures be returned to Greece? Yes – No en-us 2017-03-19 09:13:36 UTC 2017-03-29 07:52:09 UTC hello@padlet.com emilyharris610 https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_wk5_wed515pm/wish/163333655 - Cultural heritage: the right 
- Now Greece has a place to put them, The New Acropolis can house the marbles
- The Ottoman Empire gave them away rather than the Greek government
-  It won't be a slippery slope to wanting everything back but just the marbles they want back
- British museum focuses on the marbles' aesthetic values rather than their cultural significance
- The idea that Greece is not as sophisticated as Britain - more people will visit the British Museum rather than Athens: British superiority, patronising to Greece "they are better off here than in Greece"
- Doesn't Britain have any special cultural artefacts of their own? Rather than using the argument that the marbles are their best artefact in the museum
- Museums shouldn't be stuck in the past 
- It's a good thing to return things to who they belong to, England's colonialism 
- cultural tourism: economic reasons: attracting tourists to Greece rather than to the UK]]> 2017-03-29 07:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_wk5_wed515pm/wish/163333655 dfusco https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_wk5_wed515pm/wish/163333755 - -The works WERE legally acquired therefore they belong to the British Museum. The law will favour the British Museum if the case went to court. 
- - Current political/ economic climate in Greece = can they sustain the care and protection of the sculptures in the future? On going care? 
E.g. the olympic village? Has fallen to disrepair. 
- -Sculptures have become just as much our identity as just purely the Greek identity: 
- - overall comprehensive view of civilization if the work remains in the British Museum
- - Will the Greeks pay to reacquire the sculptures?? This will be an enormous cost for the British Museum otherwise
- - Can the Greek govt. offer something in return? Some other works of significance? 
- - If the works are returned, it will open up the dilemma of other countries requesting cultural material to be returned. What will happen to the collection? The museum's purpose as an international museum (universal museum - belongs to the world, to every human being)
- - Decreases the value of the collection as a whole which belongs to the British public (the people who have been funding the care and protection of the works since they were brought into the country taxes etc.). 


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