DW Zoe Katzagiannaki, London
The Guardian this time raises the issue of the reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures with Greece and becomes another British newspaper that is in favor of the return and in fact in such a short time after the Times.
The opinion article of the journalist Charlotte Higgins, published today, was titled with a rather caustic title that asks “The sculptures of the Parthenon belong to Greece – then why is it so difficult to accept reunification?”.
And so with this question he goes on to clarify that this is a case whose responsibility is transferred from one to the other. As he characteristically writes, the British government maintains that the reunification does not depend on it but on the administrators of the British Museum. The administrators of the British Museum now – in addition to not having the “will” to return them – claim that there is the 1963 British Museum Act that binds them.
The Guardian is positive about the Acropolis Museum
In particular, the law stipulates that in order for any exhibit outside the British Museum to leave, it must either have been damaged or be a copy or be an exhibit that was looted or forcibly purchased during the Holocaust. At the same time, the administrators claim that it is not possible to borrow the sculptures, this time under the responsibility of the Greeks themselves, who do not recognize the ownership of the British museum.
Another characteristic point of the article is that the journalist chooses to describe the museum’s Duvin gallery, where the 75-meter frieze and some of the sculptures of the Parthenon gables are located, “somewhat gloomy and depressing, compared to the fantastic narrative represented in the Acropolis Museum “.
Concluding by referring to the philhellene Boris Johnson – who as a student wrote in favor of reunification – he concludes that Westminster does not seem to detach itself from Britain’s imperial past, which is perhaps what really prevents reunification.
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