The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in talks with the Acropolis Museum in Athens about reuniting two fragments from the Parthenon's northern frieze to be displayed in the Parthenon Gallery of the Acropolis Museum, with direct views to the Parthenon.

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg held a news conference with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias. The talks, which Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias mentioned in his presentation included the joint aim to raise awareness and to enhance effectiveness at international level in combatting illicit trafficking of cultural goods and in protecting cultural heritage. Minister Dendias went on to thank Minister Schallenberg about the talks regarding the two Parthenon fragments held in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.

The Vienna fragments include the heads of two elders from a sacred procession captured on the north frieze slab IX with the rest of the sculptures on either side located in Athens, as well as a rider from the north frieze.

Greece is naturally hopeful that Austria’s gesture will help with the on-going talks between Britain and Greece, also to reunite the Parthenon Marbles.

In 2022, Palermo, Sicily, Italy returned the “Fagan fragment,” a piece of sculpture from the Parthenon, to Greece permanently.

Then in December last year the Vatican Museums agreed to return three fragments, with the blessing of Pope Francis.

The Vatican gesture was described as a “donation” from the Pope to His Beatitude Ieronymos II, the Orthodox Christian archbishop of Athens and all Greece, and “as a concrete sign of the Pope's sincere desire to follow in the ecumenical path of truth.”

In March of this year, the reunification ceremony of the three fragments from the Vatican took place at the Acropolis Museum.