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British Museum is 'not fit' to keep the Elgin Marbles
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STANDARDS OF conservation at the British Museum have fallen so far
that it should consider handing back the Elgin Marbles to Greece, the
professional body for conservators and restorers has claimed.
The United Kingdom Institute for Conservation warns that fragile
objects such as papyrus, textiles and wooden objects are in immediate
danger and that the museum's reputation for conservation - on which
its claim to keep the Elgin Marbles is based - is also under threat.
The institute...
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The day the Parthenon blew up In this Olympic summer, the row about who owns the Elgin Marbles rages as fiercely as ever. But the real villains, writes Andrew Graham-Dixon, have been all but airbrushed out
The Sunday Telegraph London
; `Cold as the crags upon his native coast, / His mind as barren and his heart as hard, / Is he whose head conceived, whose hand prepared, / Aught to displace Athena's poor remains . . ." Byron's account of the actions of Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin, in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, offers a
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PARLIAMENT: Culture - Greece will share Elgin marbles if they are returned
The Independent - London
; GREECE WOULD be prepared to share ownership of the Elgin marbles if they were returned to Athens, the Foreign Minister said yesterday. George Papandreou, who visited the British Museum to view the 2,500-year- old frieze yesterday, said he favoured a partnership approach to resolving the dispute
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Elgin Marbles rebuff for Greece.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: LUKE LEITCH FRESH attempts by the Greek government to have the Elgin Marbles returned to their original home at the Parthenon in Athens will be rebuffed by the British Museum today. Greek culture minister Professor Evangelos Venizelos is visiting the Bloomsbury museum this afternoon to meet
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Elgin marbles must stay, says museum head
The Independent - London
; THE ELGIN marbles should never be returned to their original home in the Parthenon, the director of the British Museum said yesterday. "The British Museum can situate the achievements of these Greek sculptures in the context of the wider ancient world," Neil MacGregor said.
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Smith refuses to return Elgin Marbles CULTURE
The Independent - London
; CHRIS SMITH warned yesterday that he would oppose any attempts to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. US President Bill Clinton was reported at the weekend to have called for Britain to return the 2,500-year-old sculptures to Athens but, during question time, the Secretary of State for Culture said
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