The agreement provides for the sending of a part of the Virgin Sculptures to Athens on a rotating basis and for several years
The British Museum and the Acropolis Museum are close to a deal that would give the “green light” for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures, according to a Bloomberg report.
The specific agreement that would allow the return over time, as part of a cultural exchange, would mark the end of a dispute that dates back to the 1800s, the publication comments.
The agreement provides for the sending of a part of the Virgin Sculptures to Athens on a rotating basis and for several years. In return, the London museum will receive other items on “loan” and also Britain could get plaster casts of the Parthenon sculptures.
Complex discussions are ongoing, the paper notes, with the deal yet to be finalized, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, noting that the logistics of moving the projects are also extremely complex.
A deal would resolve a dispute that has plagued Anglo-Greek relations since the founding of modern Greece in 1832 and which, the authors of the article say, at one point threatened to add another layer to the UK’s already complicated Brexit negotiations with the EU. European Union.
The deal could be similar to the one struck by Greece last year that stipulated Greece would retrieve 161 ancient artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. That deal, which also involved a Delaware-based cultural foundation, sees the marble works collected by an American billionaire gradually return to Greece after being exhibited at the Met along with other works making the return journey, in a lengthy process which will last from 2023 to 2048.
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