UK government’s acquisition of the Marbles

The assertion by the British Museum on its website that the Parthenon Marbles were legally obtained is unproven and unsafe. The BCRPM therefore states on its own website in the name of balance and objectivity that the legality of the UK government’s acquisition of the Marbles remains entirely unproven.

For 200 years the Greeks have been yearning for the return of their marble sculptures taken by England from the Parthenon.

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The British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles

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Leading Quotes

Supportive Views

"The British Museum could become a truly moral, world Museum of the 21st century, recognising that Athens, having built a home for the Parthenon sculptures, is worthy of exhibiting the surviving fragmented pieces in the Acropolis Museum."
- Dame Janet Suzman

"It would be a good thing if the British Museum gave the 2,500-year-old sculptures back to Greece. Even in England the polling is in favour of returning the marbles."
- George Clooney

"Recognising that what you did in the past isn't always the right thing for the present. You can't justify something now with what took place 200 years ago."
- Victoria Hislop

"If Lord Elgin decided he wanted to put those marbles in Edinburgh at the museums they would have been back years ago. I have no reservations about what's happening and how it is wrong. And it is theft. And those Elgin Marbles should go back to Greece."
- Brian Cox

Case for Return

The Case for the Return

The Parthenon Gallery in the Acropolis Museum, is the one place on earth where it is possible to experience simultaneously the Parthenon and its missing sculptures.

History of Marbles

The History of the Marbles

For 200 years the Greeks have been yearning for the return of their marble sculptures taken by England from the Parthenon.

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A personal view of Greece, Britain and the arts, a lecture by Bruce Clark

: 30 June 2020

30 June 2020, Athens, Greece

As part of 'The Venizelos Library Talks' held by the British Embassy Athens, Bruce Clark gives an online lecture titled 'A personal view of Greece, Britain and the arts', followed by a piano recital by Manos Kitsikopoulos.

Introduced by Kate Smith, HM Ambassador, this lecture is worth watching and we found it inspiration, not least as we too believe that cultural diplomacy needs to be upheld and may it help bring about many exciting new chapters to Anglo Greek relations.

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Listen to the full lecture here.

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We pay tribute to all the great musicians also and include violinist Michael Iskas Michael Iskas violinist

and pianist Manos Kitsikopoulos

Manos Kitsikopoulos

Athens Greece , Kate Smith, HM Ambassador , British Embassy Athens , The Venizelos Library Talks , Bruce Clark , A personal view of Greece, Britain and the arts , Constantine Peter Cavafy , E.M. Forester , Lawrence Durrell , George Seferis , Patrick Leigh Fermor , Reginald Leeper , George Katsimbalis , Stefanos Sarafis , Marion Pascoe , Betty Ambatielos , Betty Bartlett-Ambatielos , Edmund Keeley , Peter Levi , Kevin Andrews , Philip Sherrard , Michael Iskas , Manos Kitsikopoulos , Antony Charles Thomas , British Council , Steven Runciman , Eleni Vlachou

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