New poll in Britain in favor of reuniting the Parthenon Sculptures – Mobilization on the issue

London, Thanasis Gavos

According to a new poll, 54% of Britons are in favor of reuniting the Parthenon Sculptors in Athens.

The measurement on a sample of almost 2,000 citizens was done on behalf of the Parthenon Project organization financed by the Greek plastics industrialist John Lefas. The Parthenon Project is at the center of renewed initiatives and processes on the issue.

According to the results of the poll shared with the BBC, only 16% of respondents were in favor of keeping the Sculptures in the British Museum.

The most basic justification for supporting the return of the Sculptors from London is that

The Parthenon Project points out that among respondents who voted for the ruling Conservative Party in Britain in the 2019 election, 44% are in favor of return, with a further 28% expressing no strong opinion.

The head of the board of the Parthenon Project, as reported by the BBC, is assumed by the Undersecretary for Culture under the Cameron governments, Lord Ed Veysey, who states that “an agreement (for the reunification of the Sculptors) is possible”.

He adds that the support of British citizens and Conservative voters for the repatriation of the Sculptors is “clear”.

Lord Vesey ehas secured for Thursday a debate in the House of Lords on the prospect of amending the 1983 National Heritage Act. This law prohibits the removal of objects from the collection of some British museums, such as the Victoria & Albert.

A similar law, from 1963, prohibits the removal of exhibits from the British Museum.

In an op-ed in The Times today, Lord Vesey points out that such laws served a purpose that is now outmoded and that “the momentum” is building for the repatriation of stolen cultural treasures from Western museums. The opposite view, he comments, “looks increasingly unsustainable”.

Not about me Parthenon sculptures, he also adds his voice to the argument of a mutually beneficial agreement on the basis of which the British Museum would permanently return the Parthenon Sculptures to the Acropolis Museum (after the 1963 law would have been amended) and in return would periodically receive other ancient Greek masterpieces that were not have ever been exhibited in London.

The same form of solution promoted by the Parthenon Project was supported in a video posted on Twitter by the famous British actor, writer and TV presenter Stephen Fry, who has been arguing for the reunification of the Sculptors for years.

Mr Fry is also among the Britons appointed to the board of the Parthenon Project, according to the BBC, along with the author Lord Dobbs and Baroness Meyer, both Conservative members of the House of Lords, but also the former deputy director of Sunday Times reporter Sarah Baxter.

In her statements to SKAI a few days ago, Ms. Baxter estimated that eventually the Sculptures will be permanently returned from the British Museum to the Acropolis Museum with the formula used to return the Fagan fragment from the Antonino Salinas Museum in Palermo.

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