KOYO KOUOH LANDS VENICE BIENNALE TOP JOB. Koyo Kouoh, the 57-year-old Cameroonian Swiss museum director, has been appointed ...
The Parthenon Sculptures, Rosetta Stone and Benin Bronzes are just some of the ‘contested objects’ in Bloomsbury ...
The row could be raised by the Greek prime minister when he meets Sir Keir Starmer on Tuesday.
Will the new Labour government help Greece secure the return of the Parthenon marbles, held at the British Museum since 1816?
The statues came from the 2,500-year-old Parthenon and have been displayed at the museum, in central London, for more than ...
Museum of Birmingham Photograph by DEA/Album After spending several years in a temporary facility, the marbles were moved to the Elgin Room in the British Museum in 1832. As the exhibition ...
The British Museum has loaned one of the Elgin Marbles to Russia – the first time part of the priceless collection has been moved out of Britain since it arrived from Greece. The loan comes ...
A major new campaign to return the Elgin marbles to Greece is being launched ... which has been housed in the British Museum for the last 200 years, returned to Athens. The group wants to see ...
It so happens that Fischer had, a couple of years earlier, given an interview to Greek media defending the British Museum’s ownership of a collection of sculptures that Lord Elgin’s team of ...