Marbles Greece British Museum
Greece 1050bc 520bc.
Marbles greece british museum. Mendoni said saturday that the marbles were loot and greece would never recognise the british museum s claim to the friezes. 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. Elgin marbles collection of ancient greek sculptures and architectural details in the british museum london where they are now called the parthenon sculptures. Plan and book your visit.
The parthenon was built as a temple dedicated to the goddess athena. The director of the british museum has provoked anger by suggesting the removal of the parthenon marbles from greece in the 19th century could be seen as a creative act. 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. The objects were removed from the parthenon at athens and from other ancient buildings and shipped to england by arrangement of thomas bruce 7th lord elgin who was british.
Greece has been campaigning for three decades for their return. The parthenon marbles a major money making display at the british museum have been the subject of an ongoing dispute between greece and the uk. The parthenon sculptures in the british museum. Graham barclay bwp.
It was the centrepiece of an ambitious building programme on the acropolis of athens. The 2 500 year old sculptures were illegally torn off the parthenon in the 1800s taken to england and sold to the museum in 1816 by lord elgin. Sculptures which form part of the elgin marbles taken from the parthenon in athens greece over 200 years ago on display at the british museum in london england. A section of marble frieze sculpture 438 432 bc from the parthenon in athens part of the collection that is popularly referred to as the elgin marbles at the british museum.