Deaccession Items News Today

Them back in athens. between 2000 and 2010, they built this new museum on the acropolis. and one of the galleries is the parthenon gallery, and it has the items, the artworks from the parthenon that didnt get taken by other countries. and theyve left spaces where theyve put very good plastic replicas of, for example, the works that are in the british museum. but they have always been very clear that these items need to be reunited with the rest of them, they need to be back in greece. but the br...

That unlike a lot of museums up and down the uk... viewers might remember that the horniman, a london museum, has returned ownership of 72 benin bronzes back to nigeria. but the british museum is bound by very different laws. according to laws set by parliament — and parliament would have to change them — they cant deaccession items in their collection, except under very specific reasons. effectively, that means they cant give ownership of these unless the government decides they are going t...