On 21 July the Huffpost ran their exclusive story on the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, agreeing with George Osborne, that a deal should be done with Greece to find a way of sharing the 'Elgin Marbles'.
Mayor Khan called on the British Museum, UK government and Greek government to work together to “make progress” in this cultural dispute.
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The story was also published in the Metro, with Sadiq Khan favouring the idea of artefacts, not just from Greece but from all over the world, shared by the British Museum.
The British Museum has always prided itself in the fact that its exhibits 'tell the story of cultural achievement throughout the world, from prehistory to present day'. It urges visitors to re-examine cultural identities and explore the connections between them. The Parthenon sculptures are 'an important representation of the culture of Ancient Athens' and the British Museum does not wish to return them to Greece as they wish to continue to provide visitors with 'insights into how ancient Greece influenced and was influenced by other civilisations it encountered, especially Egypt, Persia and Rome'.
And yet the story, the next chapter of the sculptures from the Parthenon, the 21st century story, post the opening of the Acropolis Museum is told on this superlative museum's top floor, the Parthenon Gallery. For it here, that Greece can offer the world, the one place on earth where it is possible to have a single and aesthetic experience simultaneously of the Parthenon and its sculptures.
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