![]() The cleaning was ordered by Lord Duveen of Milbank, the British Museum's benefactor, who, St. Then, the museum coated the carvings with wax to mask the damaged surface. ![]() In 1938 they bungled a cleaning by using metal scrapers to scrub them to an alabaster white. The museum also damaged the marbles in another way. He explained that London’s polluted air ate away at the marble because the museum didn't use proper air-quality filters until 1962. Clair said he discovered in the diaries of museum official Roger Hinks how the marbles came to be damaged. ![]() Clair, a British authority on the Parthenon Marbles, told the London Observer of a museum cover-up of foul-ups. The efforts began with Lord Elgin justifying his thievery by saying the museum would be better caretakers of the works than the Greeks. ![]() The partner offer is just another in a long list of efforts by the British Museum to keep the marble. Clearly shrugging off the theft, deputy director Jonathan Williams told the Sunday Times his offer is intended to “change the temperature of the debate around the marbles.”ĭebate? There’s no debate. ![]() The marbles - 17 stone figures carved for the 2,500-year-old temple – were ripped from their mooring on the Acropolis in 1816 by the 7th Earl of Elgin and sold to the museum for $50,000.īuying stolen property doesn’t make the museum a rightful owner. Can you believe the cheekiness of the British Museum to offer Greece part-ownership of the Parthenon marbles? How can you share something that isn’t yours? ![]()
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