Elizabeth Marlowe, founder of the Museum Studies Program at Colgate University, gave a lecture on decolonizing museums ...
The Elgin Marbles – and the debate over which country owns them – are in the spotlight yet again after Keir Starmer met with his Greek counterpart in Downing Street today. The artefacts ...
The Elgin Marbles are in the UK in the National History Museum but there is a long-running dispute over where the ancient sculptures – also known as the Parthenon Sculptures – should be housed.
Stories in StoneDefenders of Lord Elgin argue that the removal of the marbles ensured their preservation. His critics point out that British attitudes to conservation were not always historically ...
Greece has claimed progress has been made in negotiations to return the Elgin Marbles to Athens ahead of a crunch meeting its Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Sir Keir Starmer at Downing Street.
Sir Keir Starmer will refuse to budge on the Elgin Marbles row when the Greek Prime Minister visits London tomorrow. The Prime Minister is set to tell his counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis that the ...
"With the bunch we have (running Greece), let's just hope we don't lose the marbles we already have," he jibed. Known in Britain as the Elgin Marbles, the 2,500-year-old sculptures adorned the ...
In 1811, the 5th Duke gave permission to Lord Elgin to store the Elgin Marbles in the grounds to the west side of Burlington House, Lord Elgin having failed to sell the Marbles to the government. In ...